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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Letter name specifying the dimensions of bits, core barrels, and drill rods in the H-size and W-group wireline diamond drilling system having a core diameter of 76.2 mm and a hole diameter of 99.2 mm. Syn:HX. (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 |
HW | Dutch | Hoogwater | N/A |
HW | English | Heavy Water | N/A |
HW | German | Hochwasser | Geography |
| HW 2/12 | English | Hard Winter 2/12 | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: HW |
| Specialty definitions using "HW": HX. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "HW" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "HW" is used about 18 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) | 44.44% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 22.22% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | HW Group Plc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
hw | 90 | hw setup toshiba | 3 |
bush george hw | 20 | help hw | 3 |
hw motorsports | 15 | 101 hw | 2 |
40 hw pca | 8 | 4 form hw | 2 |
hw monitor | 6 | computer hw | 2 |
hw ry | 4 | doctor hw | 2 |
home hw | 4 | briggs hw | 2 |
hw wallscr84 | 4 | financial hw | 2 |
2036 heathkit hw | 3 | hw maui | 2 |
hw lochner | 3 | 8 heathkit hw mods | 2 |
hw wiegandt.com | 3 | highclass.com hw | 2 |
hw motorsport | 3 | hw wilson | 2 |
baker hw | 3 | bushs executive goerge hw order | 2 |
100 hw weihrauch | 3 | design.com hw | 2 |
8 heathkit hw | 3 | hw machine.com | 2 |
8 hw | 3 | ||
hw machine.com | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "HW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Heisswasser (high-temperature hot water, hot water, HT HW). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | hway | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HW": hwan. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HW": archway, archways, athwart, athwartship, athwartships, bathwater, bathwaters, beachwear, benchwarmer, benchwarmers, birthwort, birthworts, braunschweiger, braunschweigers, breadthwise, brushwood, brushwoods, brushwork, brushworks, bushwa, bushwah, bushwahs, bushwas, bushwhack, bushwhacked, bushwhacker, bushwhackers, bushwhacking, bushwhacks, catchword, catchwords, churchwarden, churchwardens, churchwoman, churchwomen, coachwork, coachworks, crashworthiness, crashworthinesses, crashworthy, deathwatch, deathwatches, dishware, dishwares, dishwasher, dishwashers, dishwater, dishwaters, earthward, earthwards, earthwork. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "h-w" | |
+1 letter: haw, hew, how, wha, who, why. | |
+2 letters: chaw, chew, chow, dhow, hawk, haws, hewn, hews, howe, howf, howk, howl, hows, hwan, phew, shaw, shew, show, thaw, thew, wash, wham, whap, what, whee, when, whet, whew, whey, whid, whig, whim, whin, whip, whir, whit, whiz, whoa, whom, whop, whys, wich, wish, with, wych. | |
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