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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Rw |
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 |
RW | Danish | Den Rwandiske Republik | Geography |
RW | Dutch | Republiek Rwanda | Geography |
RW | English | Roger and Wells | N/A |
RW | Finnish | Ruandan tasavalta | Geography |
RW | French | République rwandaise | Geography, Law |
RW | German | Republik Ruanda | Geography, Law |
RW | Greek | Ρουάντα | Geography |
RW | Italian | Repubblica del Ruanda | Geography, Law |
RW | Spanish | República Ruandesa | Geography |
RW | Swedish | Republiken Rwanda | Geography |
| RW 2 | English | Red Winter II | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Bradsher RW. Histoplasmosis and blastomycosis. (references) | |
Chapman SW, Bradsher RW, Campbell GD, et al. Practice guidelines for the management of patients with blastomycosis. (references) | ||
Based on indices of body fat, studies of large populations have shown that there is a continuous relationship between RW or BMI and morbidity and mortality. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RW" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 79.41% of the time. "RW" is used about 34 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 (proper) | 79.41% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (common) | 8.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "RW": CD-RW. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cd rw | 2,810 | philips cd rw | 59 |
dvd rw | 1,551 | lg cd rw | 58 |
cd rw drive | 351 | cd rw review | 58 |
external cd rw | 286 | dvd rw pioneer | 54 |
cd rw driver | 265 | lite on cd rw | 54 |
dvd rw drive | 260 | dvd rw disc | 54 |
cd rw software | 146 | cd rw software free | 53 |
cd rw dvd | 142 | yamaha cd rw | 52 |
dvd r rw | 136 | cd rw media | 50 |
dvd rw media | 134 | iomega cd rw | 45 |
dvd rw external | 126 | samsung cd rw | 43 |
sony dvd rw | 120 | dvd nec rw | 41 |
sony cd rw | 107 | dvd rw external drive | 41 |
cd rw external drive | 100 | dvd rw review | 41 |
rw | 92 | 1100a dvd nd nec rw | 40 |
co rw | 80 | cd r rw | 39 |
cd rw backup | 71 | acer cd rw | 39 |
sony cd rw driver | 70 | cd rw erase | 38 |
cd rw format | 68 | dvd cd rw combo | 36 |
cd rw usb | 67 | phillips cd rw | 36 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "RW": afterward, afterwards, afterword, afterwords, afterworld, afterworlds, airward, airwave, airwaves, airway, airways, airwise, airwoman, airwomen, airworthier, airworthiest, airworthiness, airworthinesses, airworthy, alderwoman, alderwomen, anchorwoman, anchorwomen, barware, barwares, bearwood, bearwoods, beggarweed, beggarweeds, bitterweed, bitterweeds, bladderwort, bladderworts, burweed, burweeds, butterweed, butterweeds, butterwort, butterworts, cankerworm, cankerworms, carryforward, carryforwards, carwash, carwashes, caterwaul, caterwauled, caterwauling, caterwauls, cedarwood, cedarwoods. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "r-w" | |
+1 letter: raw, row, war, wry. | |
+2 letters: awry, braw, brew, brow, craw, crew, crow, draw, drew, ewer, frow, grew, grow, prow, raws, rows, trow, vrow, wair, ward, ware, wark, warm, warn, warp, wars, wart, wary, waur, wear, weer, weir, were, wert, whir, wire, wiry, word, wore, work, worm, worn, wort, wrap, wren, writ. | |
+3 letters: arrow, award, aware, bower, brawl, brawn, braws, brews, brown, brows, cower, cowry, crawl, craws, crews, crowd, crown, crows, crwth, dewar, dower, dowry, drawl, drawn, draws, drown, dwarf, ewers, fewer, frown, frows, growl, grown, grows, hewer, jowar, lower, mower, newer, owner, pawer, power, prawn, prowl, prows, rawer, rawin, rawly, renew, resaw, resew, resow, rewan, rewax, rewed, rewet, rewin, rewon, rowan, rowdy, rowed, rowel, rowen, rower, rowth, sawer, screw, serow, sewar, sewer, shrew, sowar, sower, straw, strew, strow, sward, sware, swarf, swarm, swart, swear, sweer, swirl, sword, swore, sworn, tawer, thraw, threw, throw, tower, trawl, trews, trows, twerp, twier, twirl, twirp, twyer, vower, vrouw, vrows, wader, wafer, wager, wairs, waker, waler, wards, wared, wares, warez, warks, warms, warns, warps, warts, warty, water, waver, waxer, wears, weary, weber, weird, weirs, wharf, where, whirl, whirr, whirs, whore, whorl, whort, wider, wiper, wired, wirer, wires, wirra, wiser, wiver, wooer, words, wordy, works, world, worms, wormy, worry, worse, worst, worth, worts, wrack, wrang, wraps, wrapt, wrath, wreak, wreck, wrens, wrest, wrick, wried, wrier, wries, wring, wrist, write, writs, wrong, wrote, wroth, wrung, wryer, wryly, wurst. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 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)01010010 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 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)5257 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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