AWK

Definition: AWK

AWK

Adjective

1. Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.

2. Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).

3. Odd; out of order; perverse.

Adverb

1. Perversely; in the wrong way.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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).

Crosswords: AWK

Specialty definitions using "AWK": associative array ♦ backward compatible ♦ GNU awk ♦ Nawk ♦ pattern matching ♦ RDB ♦ TAWK. (references)

Non-English Usage: "AWK" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (auk).

Commercial Usage: AWK

Domain	Title
Books	Awk Programming (2 Days) (reference) Awk! (reference) Effective awk Programming (3rd Edition) (reference) GAWK: The GNU AWK User's Guide (reference) Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for American Water Works Co. - AWK [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: AWK

"AWK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AWK" is used about 2 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)

Expression: AWK

Frequency of Internet Keywords: AWK

Derivations: AWK

Derivations
	Words beginning with "AWK": awkward, awkwarder, awkwardest, awkwardly, awkwardness, awkwardnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "AWK": ballhawk, dawk, dorhawk, gawk, goshawk, hawk, newshawk, nighthawk, squawk, tomahawk. (additional references)
	Words containing "AWK": ballhawks, dawks, dorhawks, drawknife, drawknives, gawked, gawker, gawkers, gawkier, gawkies, gawkiest, gawkily, gawkiness, gawkinesses, gawking, gawkish, gawkishly, gawkishness, gawkishnesses, gawks, gawky, goshawks, hawkbill, hawkbills, hawked, hawker, hawkers, hawkey, hawkeyed, hawkeys, hawkie, hawkies, hawking, hawkings, hawkish, hawkishly, hawkishness, hawkishnesses, hawklike, hawkmoth, hawkmoths, hawknose, hawknoses, hawks, hawksbill, hawksbills, hawkshaw, hawkshaws, hawkweed, hawkweeds, jayhawker. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: AWK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-k-w"
	-1 letter: aw, ka.
	Words containing the letters "a-k-w"
	+1 letter: dawk, gawk, hawk, wack, wake, walk, wark, wauk, weak, weka.
	+2 letters: askew, awake, awoke, dawks, gawks, gawky, hawks, pawky, swank, tweak, wacke, wacko, wacks, wacky, waked, waken, waker, wakes, walks, warks, wauks, wekas, whack, wrack, wreak.
	+3 letters: awaked, awaken, awakes, awoken, gawked, gawker, hawked, hawker, hawkey, hawkie, keyway, knawel, kwacha, kwanza, rewake, skyway, squawk, swanks, swanky, thwack, twanky, tweaks, tweaky, wackes, wackos, wakens, wakers, wakiki, waking, walked, walker, walkup, warked, wauked, weaken, weaker, weakly, whacko, whacks, whacky, wracks, wreaks.
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Alternative Orthography: AWK

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 57 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.- .--. -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010111 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#87 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0057 004B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
awk	115	awk data example parse	4
awk window	18	awk command unix	4
awk tutorial	16	awk cat grep sed sort source tool unix	3
awk example	12	awk example gsub	3
unix awk	8	awk ctl	3
awk script	7	awk man	3
awk manual	7	awk find replace	2
awk dos	6	awk get line	2
sed awk	5	awk linux	2
awk command	5	awk download	2
address awk ip parse	5	awk substr	2
awk programming	4	awk print	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "AWK": gnu awk. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

AWK