| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner.[Websters]
2. Awkwardly.[Websters] 3. In an awkward manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective awk.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (awk) | 1. Odd; out of order; perverse.[Websters]. 2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).[Websters]. 3. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.[Websters]. 4. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb awkly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "AWKLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Specialty Definition: awk
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Awk /awk/ 1. n. [Unix techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials). It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing. See also Perl. 2. n. Editing term for an expression awkward to manipulate through normal regexp facilities (for example, one containing a newline). 3. vt. To process data using `awk(1)'. = B = Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Military | Water Tanker. (references) | ||
| Technology | Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (UNIX tool). (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: awk
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Wan Awk Pansa | Wan Awk Pansa (Thai วันออกพรรษา) is the last day of the Thai observance of vassa. It occurs in October, three lunar months after Wan Kao Pansa. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: awk
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| GNU awk | Computing | GNU awk gawk. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: awk
| 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 | |
| AWK | English | Al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan | Computer - (Unix) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: awk | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| AWK (programming language) | 42 | AWK (alternative meanings) | 2 | |
| Wan Awk Pansa | 3 | AWK (programming language) | 42 | |
| AWK (alternative meanings) | 2 | Wan Awk Pansa | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
