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ADAW

Definitions: ADAW

ADAW

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To awaken; to arouse.

Transitive verb

1. To subdue; to daunt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ADAW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADAW

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

adaw

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: ADAW

Derivations

Words containing "ADAW": bradawl, bradawls. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ADAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-w"

-1 letter: awa, daw, wad.

-2 letters: aa, ad, aw.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-w"
 

+1 letter: award.

 

+2 letters: awaked, awards, vaward, wadmal.

 

+3 letters: airward, awaited, awarded, awardee, awarder, awkward, bradawl, crawdad, drawbar, gadwall, handsaw, hayward, headway, jackdaw, manward, roadway, seaward, vanward, vawards, wadable, wadmaal, wadmals, wakanda, warhead, washday, waylaid, wayward, weasand, weazand, woadwax.

 

+4 letters: aardwolf, agalwood, asswaged, awakened, awardees, awarders, awarding, backward, bradawls, crawdads, drawable, drawback, drawbars, eastward, fadeaway, foldaway, gadwalls, goalward, handsaws, hardware, haywards, headways, hideaway, jackdaws, landward, madwoman, manwards, misaward, nowadays, radwaste, rearward, reawaked, roadways, seawards, unawaked, viewdata, wadeable, wadmaals, wahconda, wakandas, warheads, washdays, waveband, weasands, weazands, welladay, workaday, yardwand.

 

+5 letters: afterward, agalwoods, arrowhead, awardable, awkwarder, awkwardly, backwards, bandwagon, boardwalk, coastward, disavowal, drawbacks, drawplate, drawshave, earthward, eastwards, fadeaways, hardwares, headwater, hideaways, jaywalked, misawards, radwastes, rearwards, spaceward, standaway, swampland, sweatband, twayblade, unawarded, viewdatas, wahcondas, waistband, wallboard, warranted, washboard, washstand, wassailed, wasteland, watchband, wavebands, waywardly, welladays, wideawake, woadwaxes, yardwands.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADAW


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

41 44 41 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)

.-    -..    .-    .--.

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

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

01000001 01000100 01000001 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#65 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0041 0057

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

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

35383557

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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