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Definitions: Shaw |
ShawNoun1. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885). 2. United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919). 3. English playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Shaw" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a copse". |
Date "Shaw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | SHAW, G. Bernard, grouch, truth teller. An English writer who made money by being honest enough to tell people what they knew. S.'s enemies claim he would have to work should his theories be put into practice. Believes in socialism and wants everything. Author of considerable sarcasm, wit, and divided opinion as to his talents. Ambition: An Americanless England. Also, sales. Address: Watch bill-boards. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Shaw is also a neighborhood in Washington, D.C
People whose surname is or was Shaw include
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Shaw is Canada's second largest cable television operator, after Rogers Communications.
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Shaw is a city located in Mississippi. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,312.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shaw."
Synonyms: ShawSynonyms: Anna Howard Shaw (n), G. B. Shaw (n), George Bernard Shaw (n), Henry Wheeler Shaw (n), Josh Billings (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shaw |
| English words defined with "Shaw": Anna Howard Shaw ♦ G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw ♦ Henry Wheeler Shaw ♦ Shavian, subservient. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Shaw": Alphard ♦ Information Processing Language ♦ SHAW ♦ Turbo C. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Shaw": Shawfowl. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Shaw" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (Shaw). |
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Screenplays | We've drawn attention to ourselves, Miss Shaw. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life. (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod) You have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool Maxine Shaw! (Living Single; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Tom Anderson) | |
Lyrics | Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw (Too Much Time On My Hands; performing artist: STYX; writing credit: Tommy Shaw) | |
Clever | Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. (references; author: Shaw) Hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. (references; author: Shaw) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Sandie Shaw Supplement (1968) Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (1939) Shaw Talks for Movietone News (1928) | |
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 | Teuthis achilles (Shaw). In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate LVIII. Credit: Fisheries. |  | P. CXVI. 392. Trachypterus arcticus, (Brunnich), Nilsson. From Day, "Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland." 393. Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw. From Blainville, " Journal de Physique," Vol. LXXXVII. 394. Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw. From Shaw, "Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London," Vol. I. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | A F-16CJ of the 77th Fighter Squadron seen in a right turn over South Carolina while flying a training mission. The aircraft is assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw AFB, S.C. (U.S. Air Force p.; photo by Senior Airman Greg L. Davis) |  | F-16C Fighting Falcon, with moon in the background, flies a local training mission. The F-16 is the flagship aircraft of the 20th Fighter Wing, Shaw AFB, S.C. (U.S. Air Force P.; photo by Senior Airman Greg Davis).. |
 | [Gravestone of John Shaw Billings]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [John Shaw Billings]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The forward magazine of USS Shaw (DD-373) explodes during the second Japanese attack wave. To the left of the explosion, Shaw's stern is visible, at the end of floating drydock YFD-2. At right is the bow of USS Nevada (BB-36), with a tug alongside fighting fires. Photographed from Ford Island, with a dredging line in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. |  | At San Diego, California, in October 1941. Ships are (from inboard): USS Clark (DD-361), Squadron flagship; USS Case (DD-370), Division flagship; USS Cummings (DD-365); USS Shaw (DD-373); USS Tucker (DD-374). Note that these destroyers are painted in at least two different camouflage schemes. There is a tuna boat passing in the background. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sgt. Thomas Shaw, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shaw. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
G.b. Shaw | Man can climb to the highest summits but he cannot dwell there long. |
George Bernard Shaw | He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. |
| Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. | |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. |
| It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. | |
| The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. | |
| We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. | |
| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. | |
Shaw | Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. |
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King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw. |
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Health | Gavrilovskaya IN, Shepley M, Shaw R, Ginsberg MH, and Mackow ER. B3 integrins mediate the cellular entry of hantaviruses that cause respiratory failure. (references) | |
Business | A subsidiary of Shaw Engineering, Texaco, Enron Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., ABB Lummus Global, Exxon-Mobile, Foster Wheeler, Fluor Daniel, Walk Haydle & Associates, Black & Veatch Pritchard, Rust, Lockwood Green, Williams Brothers and Halliburton Energy Services. (references) | |
Economic History | Ireland | Anglo-Irish writers, including Swift, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Burke, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett, have made a major contribution to world literature over the past 300 years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shaw" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.38% of the time. "Shaw" is used about 968 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) | 99.38% | 962 | 7,565 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.52% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 968 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Shaw" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shaw | Last name | 65,000 | 144 |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Shaw Communications Inc. | United Kingdom | Arthur Shaw & Company PLC |
| USA | Shaw Industries, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Shaw, MS (city, FIPS 67000) |
Expressions using "Shaw": Anna Howard Shaw ♦ Fern shaw ♦ Fort Shaw ♦ G. B. Shaw ♦ George Bernard Shaw ♦ Henry Wheeler Shaw ♦ rip shaw ♦ Shaw A F B. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Shaw": Shaw-lefevre, Shaw-mohler. | |
Ending with "Shaw": Bernard-shaw, pad-shaw, Walker-shaw. | |
| 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 |
shaw | 1,572 | aiden shaw | 95 |
shaw cable | 1,059 | shaw internet | 92 |
shaw web mail | 670 | tommy shaw | 91 |
shaw carpet | 568 | charles shaw winery | 89 |
charles shaw wine | 502 | shaw brother | 88 |
shaw festival | 336 | vinessa shaw | 84 |
shaw industry | 301 | shaw air force base | 83 |
shaw university | 287 | shaw home page | 80 |
charles shaw | 273 | box shaw | 78 |
george bernard shaw | 192 | seyfarth shaw | 78 |
shaw rug | 183 | artie shaw | 78 |
robert shaw | 163 | mail shaw | 74 |
tracy shaw | 160 | robert gould shaw | 67 |
the shaw group | 156 | shaw laminate flooring | 66 |
shaw flooring | 124 | shaw pittman | 63 |
email shaw | 116 | shaw laminates | 61 |
shaw at home | 116 | jodie shaw | 61 |
shaw afb | 113 | bernard shaw | 59 |
vanessa shaw | 111 | afb sc shaw | 52 |
jason shaw | 97 | demand shaw | 50 |
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| Language | Translations for "Shaw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | "ъсталак. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξυλοπρίονο (rip shaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | shaw. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | keyll veg (bosk, bosket, coppice, copse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awshay шоу (show). (various references) laom (a blaze, a crowd, go to shaw), cairb (the bent ridge of a cart saddle srathair. Shaw gives further the meanings "plank). (various references) rừng thưa, cẳng cải đỏ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old Persian | 600 BCE-300 BCE | taq. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Shaw": shawed, shawing, shawl, shawled, shawling, shawls, shawm, shawms, shawn, shaws. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Shaw": bashaw, cashaw, cumshaw, cushaw, hawkshaw, kickshaw, pshaw, rickshaw, rikshaw, scrimshaw, trishaw. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Shaw": bashaws, cashaws, cumshaws, cushaws, goshawk, goshawks, hawkshaws, kickshaws, newshawk, newshawks, pshawed, pshawing, pshaws, rickshaws, rikshaws, scrimshawed, scrimshawing, scrimshaws, trishaws. (additional references) | |
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"Shaw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esha, Eshaq, Khaw, Oshawa, Sahrawi, Shabwa, shawi, shawk, shawm, Shawq, Shawqi, Shewa, shwa, Syha. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Shaw" (pronounced shô") |
| 2 | sh ô" | bashaw. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: haws, wash. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-s-w" | |
-1 letter: ash, has, haw, saw, sha, was, wha. | |
-2 letters: ah, as, aw, ha, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-s-w" | |
+1 letter: awash, chaws, hawks, hawse, pshaw, schwa, shawl, shawm, shawn, shaws, swash, swath, thaws, washy, whams, whaps, whats, wisha. | |
+2 letters: bashaw, bushwa, cahows, cashaw, cashew, cushaw, hawser, hawses, pshaws, rawish, rewash, schwas, shadow, shawed, shawls, shawms, swarth, swatch, swathe, swaths, thraws, wahoos, washed, washer, washes, washup, whacks, whales, whangs, wharfs, whaups, wheals, wheats, whenas, wraths. | |
| 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)53 68 61 77 |
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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)01010011 01101000 01100001 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h a w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0061 0077 |
| 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)53746789 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Company Usage 14. Cities 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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