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Definition: Yaw |
YawNoun1. An erratic deflection from an intended course. Verb1. Be wide open. 2. Deviate erratically form a set course, as of a ship, for example. 3. Become deflected. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Yaw" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "born on Thursday". |
Date "yaw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Note: Yaw \Yaw\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Yawed; Yawing.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. The rotational or oscillatory movement of an aircraft, rocket, or the like about a vertical axis. 2. The amount of this movement, i.e., the angle of yaw. 3. To cause to rotate about a vertical axis.4. To rotate or oscillate about a vertical axis. (references) |
Energy | The rotation of a horizontal axis wind turbine around its tower or vertical axis. (references) |
Environment | Vibration acting along the longitudinal(vertical or head-to-foot)axis of the human body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | The station of a camera or a photograph co-ordinate system about either the photograph z-axis or the exterior z-axis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | To deviate from the line of the course so as to form a crooked and irregular path through the water. This may be due to the ship being difficult to steer, or to careless handling of the helm. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | Angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Rotation of aircraft about vertical axis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
| yap | English | Yaw and pitch | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: YawSynonyms: swerve (n), gape (v), yawn (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: y''s (physics, transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Yaw |
| English words defined with "yaw": Hunt ♦ Yawed, Yawing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "yaw": angle of yaw ♦ favourable yaw, flight characteristic ♦ yaw angle, yawing axis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "yaw": Yaws. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Yaw" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Quechua (hey), Wolof (You). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ellen Beach Yaw, full-length portrait, seated at piano, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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 | Yawn; tired; exhausted; catch flies; divide; doze; drowse; expand; gap; gape; give; nap; part; sleep; snooze; spread; yaw; yawp; apathy; detachment; disgust; distaste; doldrums; dullness; ennui; fatigue; flatness; incuriosity; indifference; irksomeness; j. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | They comprise rotors, drive trains, yaw systems, electric controls, nacelles and towers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Yaw" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.42% of the time. "Yaw" is used about 31 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 77.42% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.13% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "yaw" 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 |
| Yaw | Last name | 200 | 34,375 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "yaw": favourable yaw ♦ take a yaw ♦ to yaw ♦ yaw axis ♦ yaw motion ♦ yaw phenomenon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yaw": yaw-free, Yaw-weed. | |
Ending with "yaw": crab-yaw. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yaw | 56 |
pitch roll yaw | 11 |
mog yaw | 7 |
klong yaw | 4 |
3.5 yaw | 3 |
meikle paulette yaw | 3 |
yan yaw | 3 |
paul yaw | 3 |
inertia moment yaw | 2 |
cho wee yaw | 2 |
587 587 aa damper flight vortex wake yaw | 2 |
power yaw | 2 |
adverse yaw | 2 |
beach ellen yaw | 2 |
pitch yaw | 2 |
anning oracle.com yaw | 2 |
architect cottle graybeal yaw | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yaw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shmangie nga kursi (drift), shmanget nga kursi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زاوية الإنعراج, إنعرج. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отклонявам се от курса (bag, pay off, sag, sheer), отклонение от курс. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 弹"正切'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skære ud (cut out, sheer, take a yaw), reaktionskanal (air-port system, puff port, yaw port), kalkulation af drejningsvinkel (yaw calculation, yaw computation), gunstig girbevægelse (favourable yaw), gire (to lurch, to sheer, to take a yaw, to yaw), dreje ud af kurs (to lurch, to sheer, to take a yaw, to yaw), crab yaw (crab yaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitschieten (bud), uitscheren (to lurch, to sheer, to take a yaw, to yaw), uitgieren (to lurch, to sheer, to take a yaw, to yaw), slingerberekening (yaw calculation, yaw computation), schuiver maken (to lurch, to sheer, to take a yaw, to yaw), gunstige gierbeweging (favourable yaw), gierverschijnsel (yaw phenomenon), gieren (cry out, fertilize, scream, shout, skid, whistle), gierbeweging (yaw motion, yawing), blaasuitlaat (air-port system, puff port, yaw port), blaasopening (air-port system, puff port, yaw port). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تجاوزازحدود, انحراف کشتی ازمسیرخود, انحراف (Corruption, Deflexion, Departure, Detour, Deviance, Digression, Inclination, Invert, Leeway, Offset, Perversion, Refraction, Skew, Slope, Veer), ازمسیرخودمنحرف شدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puhallusaukko (air-port system, puff port, yaw port), poiketa suunnasta (sheer, take a yaw), nokan vaakamyötäkääntyminen (favourable yaw), mutkailla (sheer, take a yaw), kallistuslaskelma (yaw calculation, yaw computation), ajautua suunnasta (sheer, take a yaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faire une embardée (to take a yaw, to yaw), faire dévier, embardée, écart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gieren (lust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκτρέπομαι τησ οδού. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"סב (avert, endorse, indorse), לסבסב. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hirtelen irányváltoztatás (yawing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | straorzata (broaching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 침로에서 벗어남 (Yawing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | immeeaght veih'n coorse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yaway guinar (sheer, take a yaw, to yaw), guinada (lurch, sheer), desviar-se da rota. (various references) рыскание, отклоняться от курса (sag, stray off course). (various references) skretati sa pravca, skretanje sa pravca. (various references) guiñar (blink, wink), guiñada (lurch, sheer, wink), derrape (sideslip, sideslipping, skidding, slipping, yaw motion, yawing), derrapar (skid, slip, to yaw). (various references) gir (sheer, swerve, turn, veer). (various references) yalpa vurmak, tereddüd etmek (balk at, be vague about smth., dither, falter, halt, hesitate, oscillate, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, stagger, stickle, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble), rotadan çıkmak. (various references) рискати (busk), рискання (hunting), відхилення від курсу (sheer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yaw": yawed, yawing, yawl, yawled, yawling, yawls, yawmeter, yawmeters, yawn, yawned, yawner, yawners, yawning, yawningly, yawns, yawp, yawped, yawper, yawpers, yawping, yawpings, yawps, yaws. (additional references) | |
Words containing "yaw": flyaway, flyaways, layaway, layaways. (additional references) | |
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"Yaw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eaw, Iewa, i-wb, Nyiwa, uaw, yaa, yaal, yaaz, yab, yac, yad, yae, yag, yai, yaj, yal, yao, yaq, yar, yas, yat, yau, yav, yawa, yawe, Yawk, yax, yay, yaz, yeaw, yeb, yeh, yeiw, yej, yeow, yeq, yev, yewe, yewt, yewy, yiew, yiw, yna, yoq, yuw, yw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: way. | |
| Words within the letters "a-w-y" | |
-1 letter: aw, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-w-y" | |
+1 letter: away, awny, awry, sway, wady, waly, wany, wary, wavy, waxy, ways, yawl, yawn, yawp, yaws. | |
+2 letters: alway, bawdy, bawty, bylaw, byway, fawny, flawy, gawky, gawsy, lawny, noway, pawky, rawly, swamy, sways, tawny, wacky, waddy, wally, waney, wanly, warty, washy, waspy, wavey, weary, yawed, yawls, yawns, yawps. | |
+3 letters: airway, always, anyhow, anyway, arrowy, aweary, bawdry, bewray, brawly, brawny, byelaw, bylaws, byways, cogway, crawly, drawly, flyway, gowany, hawkey, haymow, keyway, lawyer, leeway, logway, midway, noways, oilway, psywar, runway, sawfly, sawney, sawyer, seaway, skyway, strawy, subway, swabby, swampy, swanky, swarty, swayed, swayer, sweaty, tawdry, tawney, twangy, twanky, tweaky, unwary, wabbly, waddly, wafery, waggly, wambly, warily, warmly, wastry, watery, wavery, waveys, wavily, waxily, waylay, weakly, whacky, whammy, whydah, wrathy, yarrow, yawing, yawled, yawned, yawner, yawped, yawper. | |
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