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Date "AW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Aw |
Mining | Letter name specifying the dimensions of bits, core barrels, and drill rods in the A-size and W-group wireline diamond drilling system having a core diameter of 30.1 mm and a hole diameter of 48 mm. Syn:AX. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AW."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AW | English | Anglian Water Services Ltd | N/A |
AW | French | Aruba-code ISO | Geography, Meteorology & Standards |
AW | Greek | Αρούμπα | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AW |
| Non-English Usage: "AW" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (crude, raw, uncooked, undressed), Portuguese (Aruba), Turkmen (hunt). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Aw hell no (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) Aw, c'mon, not on my glove (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) Aw, Edward, you don't understand (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) Aw, Al, I'm gettin' kinda fond of you, kid. Not that I wanna pick out curtains or anything (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) Aw, what happened, did your parents lost a bet with God (Roxanne; writing credit: Steve Martin) | |
Lyrics | Aw baby I'm satisfied, even if you're not just mine (Rock Wit U(Awww Baby); performing artist: ASHANTI) Yeah, yeah, aw (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) Aw they ain't got no common sense (Somebody To Love; performing artist: QUEEN; writing credit: Freddie Mercury) Aw, mom you're just jealous it's the Beastie Boys ("Fight for Your Right (to Party)"; performing artist: The Beastie Boys) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nurse Aw (1934) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pull! pull! : aw, heck, you guys ain't pulling a pound!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aw, go on! it's not goin' t' rain, grandpa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Aw, be a sport, girlie, lesh [sic] drink to peash [i.e. peace] evermore!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Did yah quor'le wit 'im? : Aw! coatin' po'try 'bout th' silly ol' ocean! : is that any ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Aw! he's kiddin' yuh Bill -- that ain't th' Crown Prince!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aw Jimmy! go on! be a German!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wait for the gate -- who me? Aw, that's too slow!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aw, give a feller a chance!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Aw, please rabbit -- come on!". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Southfields, New York. Interracial activities at camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. "Aw nuts". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Gavanta S. Reingold AL, Hightower AW et al., Active surveillance for toxic shock syndrome in the United States. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AW" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 93.25% of the time. "AW" is used about 163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 93.25% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Unclassified Items | 6.13% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AW" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Aw | Last name | 100 | 88,280 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | AW Computer Systems Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AW": aw-caw, aw-fly, aw-gosh, aw-right, aw-shucks, aw-shucks-gee-look-what-happened-to-me-when-i-wasn't-trying. | |
Ending with "AW": ee-aw, hull-aw. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AW": awa, await, awaited, awaiter, awaiters, awaiting, awaits, awake, awaked, awaken, awakened, awakener, awakeners, awakening, awakens, awakes, awaking, award, awardable, awarded, awardee, awardees, awarder, awarders, awarding, awards, aware, awareness, awarenesses, awash, away, awayness, awaynesses, awe, aweary, aweather, awed, awee, aweigh, aweing, aweless, awes, awesome, awesomely, awesomeness, awesomenesses, awestricken, awestruck, awful, awfuller, awfullest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "AW": backsaw, bashaw, bedstraw, blaw, braw, bucksaw, byelaw, bylaw, cashaw, catclaw, catspaw, caw, chainsaw, chaw, clapperclaw, claw, coleslaw, craw, cumshaw, cushaw, daw, declaw, dewclaw, draw, flaw, foofaraw, forepaw, foresaw, fretsaw, geegaw, gewgaw, gnaw, guffaw, hacksaw, handsaw, haw, hawkshaw, heehaw, jackdaw, jackstraw, jaw, jigsaw, kickshaw, law, lockjaw, macaw, maccabaw, mackinaw, maw, misdraw, naw. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AW": areaway, areaways, backsaws, baklawa, baklawas, ballhawk, ballhawks, bashaws, bawbee, bawbees, bawcock, bawcocks, bawd, bawdier, bawdies, bawdiest, bawdily, bawdiness, bawdinesses, bawdric, bawdrics, bawdries, bawdry, bawds, bawdy, bawdyhouse, bawdyhouses, bawl, bawled, bawler, bawlers, bawling, bawls, bawsunt, bawtie, bawties, bawty, becrawl, becrawled, becrawling, becrawls, bedstraws, blawed, blawing, blawn, blaws, bradawl, bradawls, brawer, brawest, brawl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "a-w" | |
+1 letter: awa, awe, awl, awn, caw, daw, haw, jaw, law, maw, naw, paw, raw, saw, taw, twa, vaw, wab, wad, wae, wag, wan, wap, war, was, wat, waw, wax, way, wha, yaw. | |
+2 letters: alow, anew, avow, away, awed, awee, awes, awls, awns, awny, awol, awry, bawd, bawl, blaw, braw, caws, chaw, claw, craw, dawk, dawn, daws, dawt, draw, fawn, flaw, gawk, gawp, gnaw, hawk, haws, hwan, jaws, lawn, laws, mawn, maws, pawl, pawn, paws, raws, sawn, saws, shaw, slaw, snaw, staw, swab, swag, swam, swan, swap, swat, sway, taws, thaw, twae, twas, vaws, wabs, wack, wade, wadi, wads, wady, waes, waff, waft, wage, wags, waif, wail, wain, wair, wait, wake, wale, walk, wall, waly, wame, wand, wane, wans, want, wany, waps, ward, ware, wark, warm, warn, warp, wars, wart, wary, wash, wasp, wast, wats, watt, wauk, waul, waur, wave, wavy, wawl, waws, waxy, ways, weak, weal, wean, wear, weka, wham, whap, what, whoa, woad, wrap, yawl, yawn, yawp, yaws. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 57 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0057 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3557 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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