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Definition: WSW |
WSWNoun1. The compass point midway between west and southwest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "WSW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| 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 |
WSW | Dutch | Wet sociale werkvoorziening | Public Administration, Law |
WSW | German | Westsüdwest | Geography, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: WSWSynonym: west southwest (n). (additional references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Eugene Bricker of Fresno, California, is carried ashore to a Navy ambulance to be taken to Balboa Naval Hospital, at San Diego, California, 14 July 1969. Bricker, a crewman of the yacht Mahia, was injured at sea about 1100 miles WSW of San Diego during the Trans-Pacific Yacht Race to Hawaii. Returning from a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific, the San Diego based Black responded to the Mahia's call for assistance, detouring 180 miles to effect an emergency evacuation of the injured man. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "WSW": ene-wsw. | |
| 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 |
wsw | 47 |
2004 cao wsw | 4 |
cao wsw | 4 |
detachering voorwaarden wsw | 3 |
detachering wsw | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "WSW": meadowsweet, meadowsweets, newsweeklies, newsweekly, newswoman, newswomen, newsworthiness, newsworthinesses, newsworthy, newswriting, newswritings, unnewsworthy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "s-w-w" | |
+1 letter: waws, wows. | |
+2 letters: wawls, whews. | |
+3 letters: warsaw, widows, wowser. | |
+4 letters: bowwows, gewgaws, kowtows, pawpaws, powwows, swallow, wallows, warsaws, weewees, whipsaw, wigwags, wigwams, willows, windows, winnows, wowsers. | |
+5 letters: awlworts, dewclaws, downwash, hawkshaw, lowbrows, lowdowns, newshawk, showdown, slowdown, slowworm, snowplow, stowaway, swallows, swimwear, towaways, walkways, warpwise, warworks, washbowl, wasteway, waxweeds, waxwings, waxworks, waxworms, webworks, webworms, weftwise, westward, wetwares, whipsawn, whipsaws, whitlows, widowers, windrows, windways, wingbows, wireways. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 53 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)01010111 01010011 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W S W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0053 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)575357 |
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