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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | IAW inactive window. Used in talk systems to mean that that person will not be taking part in the conversation for a while. The sadly mispelled alternative, "unactive window" (UAW) has also been reported. (1994-12-05). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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 |
IAW | English | International Alliance of Women "Equal rights-Equal responsibilities" | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: IAW |
| Specialty definitions using "IAW": TLAs. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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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 |
iaw | 12 |
iaw wrestling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-w" | |
-1 letter: ai, aw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-w" | |
+1 letter: wadi, waif, wail, wain, wair, wait. | |
+2 letters: await, awing, diwan, miaow, pilaw, rawin, swail, swain, swami, tawie, twain, wadis, waifs, wails, wains, wairs, waist, waits, waive, wigan, wirra, wisha, witan. | |
+3 letters: airway, aswirl, atwain, awaits, aweigh, aweing, awhile, awhirl, awning, bagwig, bawtie, bewail, cawing, dawing, dawtie, diwans, earwig, gawsie, haniwa, hawing, hawkie, impawn, inwall, inward, inwrap, jawing, jigsaw, lawine, lawing, mawing, miaows, midway, oilway, pawing, pilaws, pitsaw, rawins, rawish, ripsaw, sawing, swails, swains, swamis, tawing, tawpie, twains, waddie, wadies, wading, waffie, waging, wahine, waifed, wailed, wailer, waired, waists, waited, waiter, waived, waiver, waives, wakiki, waking, walies, waling, wallie, wanier, waning, wanion, wapiti, warier, warily, waring, wasabi, wavier, wavies, wavily, waving, waxier, waxily, waxing, whidah, wigans, wigwag, wigwam, withal, wizard, wraith, yawing. | |
| 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)49 41 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)01001001 01000001 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I A W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0041 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)433557 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Abbreviations | 5. Acronyms 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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