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Poss

Poss \Poss\, v. t. [See Push.] To push; to dash; to throw. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A cat . . . possed them [the rats] about.
--Piers Plowman.

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poss

abbr. (alternative form of poss. English) vb. 1 (context archaic English) To mix with a vertical motion, especially when agitating laundry in a tub. 2 (context obsolete UK dialect English) To push; to dash; to throw.

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Poss

Poss may refer to:

  • Poss (basketball), a basketball statistic
  • National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a major photographic survey of the night sky
  • Professional Open-Source Software
  • Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane, an organic-inorganic hybrid compound with inorganic cubic core and outer organic groups.
Poss (basketball)

Poss is a stat used to estimate the number of offensive possessions a player is accountable for. It was developed by Dean Oliver, the first full-time statistical analyst in the NBA.

Poss = Field Goal Attempts + 0.4*Free Throw Attempts - 1.07*(Offensive Rebound Rate)*(Field Goals Missed) + Turnovers

Usage examples of "poss".

His father has a small station away among the hills, and Poss and Binjie help him on it.

Mary and Ellen and Poss and Binjie talked about horses, that being practically the only subject open to the two boys.

Monday, Hugh, Poss, and Binjie had to go out to an outlying paddock to draft a lot of station-sheep from a mob of travelling-sheep.

She rode well too, having been taught in England, and she, Poss, Binjie and Hugh had some great scampers after kangaroos, half-wild horses, or anything else that would get up and run in front of them.

As a rule, Poss or Binjie, perhaps both, were in attendance to escort Miss Harriott, with the result that Hugh and Mary found themselves paired off to ride home together.

On another bed sprawled Carew, who, by virtue of his trip out back, was looked upon as a bit of an oracle by Poss and Binjie, who had never been further than the mountains.

Again posses were organized, but this time there was no sudden pursuit and scouring through the hills, for they had learned the lesson, and they knew that a haphazard rush through the hills brought no result.

Yet Tom, full of anxiety lest the posses overtake him again, allowed the bear to take his own course, only urging him on now and again.

One after another of these returned, empty-handed, covered with dust and mud, their horses exhausted, to be met and passed by fresh posses starting out to continue the pursuit.

This was a first, even since the posses moved into town back in the eighties.

Each of them Is so possest and stuft with his own hopes, That any thing unto the contrary, Never so true, or never so apparent, Never so palpable, they will resist it-- VOLP: Like a temptation of the devil.

MOR: What, to poison me, that I might die intestate, and leave you possest of all?

An then tha must ha known,-- Shoo thowt it time at shoo possest A nice hooam ov her own.

In prehistoric and early historic times, the mountainous region which forms the basin of these two rivers was occupied by a gifted military race, the Etruscans, who possest a singular assimilative power for Oriental and Hellenic culture.

She rode well too, having been taught in England, and she, Poss, Binjie and Hugh had some great scampers after kangaroos, half-wild horses, or anything else that would get up and run in front of them.