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RW

"RW" is a common misspelling or typo for: raw, row, wry.


Specialty Definition: RW

DomainDefinition

Computing

Rw The country code for Rwanda. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: RW

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

RW

DanishDen Rwandiske RepublikGeography

RW

DutchRepubliek RwandaGeography

RW

EnglishRoger and WellsN/A

RW

FinnishRuandan tasavaltaGeography

RW

FrenchRépublique rwandaiseGeography, Law

RW

GermanRepublik RuandaGeography, Law

RW

GreekΡουάνταGeography

RW

ItalianRepubblica del RuandaGeography, Law

RW

SpanishRepública RuandesaGeography

RW

SwedishRepubliken RwandaGeography
RW 2EnglishRed Winter IIFood & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Non-Fiction Usage: RW

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: RW

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)79.41%2766,962
Noun (common)8.82%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)5.88%2245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)2.94%1339,140
Noun (singular)2.94%1339,140
                    Total100.00%34N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: RW

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "RW": CD-RW.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RW

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Derivations: RW

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).

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Anagrams: RW

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.

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Alternative Orthography: RW


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

52 57

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

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

01010010 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0057

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

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

5257

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INDEX

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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