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Taw

Definitions: Taw

Taw

Noun

1. The 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

2. A large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "taw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Taw

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

TAW. A schoolboy's game, played with small round balls made of stone dust, catted marbles. I'll be one upon your taw presently; a species of threat. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Synonym: Taw

Synonym: shooter (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Taw

English words defined with "taw": Tawed, Tawing, Tew. (references)
Specialty definitions using "taw": TO FUNK. (references)
Etymologies containing "taw": Taws. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Taw" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Welsh (silence, that).

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Modern Usage: Taw

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I tought I taw - I did! I did! I taw a Michael Jordan! (Space Jam; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick)

I tawt I taw a damn Yankee tat. (The Rebel Without Claws; writing credit: Friz Freleng)

Movie/TV Titles

I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)

No. 3 Mount Taw R.R. (1898)

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

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Commercial Usage: Taw

DomainTitle

Books

  • Barnstaple, town on the Taw (reference)

  • I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (Looney Tunes Big Screen Storybooks) (reference)

  • Mark of the Taw. (reference)

  • Queens English High Taw Tawk Prawpahleah (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Taw

"Taw" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.17% of the time. "Taw" is used about 24 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)54.17%1397,576
Noun (singular)37.5%9117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)4.17%1339,140
Noun (common)4.17%1339,140
                    Total100.00%24N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Taw

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

taw

40

marble taw

8

rock taw

7

f22 taw

6

stone taw

4

taw taw

4

farm river taw

2

getfreemag.com taw

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Taw

Language Translations for "taw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Lodër Fëmijësh (slapjack, teddy bear, thread-needle, Touchwood). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏دبغ الجلود. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Игра На Топчета, Стъклено Топче За Игра. (various references)

   

Czech

  

Vydìlat Kùži. (various references)

   

French

  

Tanner (tan). (various references)

   

German

  

Ausgangslinie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όαρμάρινοσ 'όλοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Üveggolyó. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyamak kulit (curry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awtay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

Jogo Da Berlinda, Curtir Com Pedra-ume. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Tãbãci (bark, dress, hide, leather, tan). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Шарики. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kliker (marble), igra klikera. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ฟอกหนังให้ขาว (โ"ยใส่สารส้มและเกลือ), ลูกหินสำหรับเ"็กเล่น. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Tuz Ve Þap Ýle Ýşlemek, Postu Ýşleyip Kösele Yapmak, Misket Oyunu, Misket Atma Çizgisi, Misket (agate, ball, grapeshot, marble, muscadine), Bilye (agate, ball, ball bearing, ballbearing, marble). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Taw

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old English450-1100

tawian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Taw

Derivations

Words beginning with "taw": tawdrier, tawdries, tawdriest, tawdrily, tawdriness, tawdrinesses, tawdry, tawed, tawer, tawers, tawie, tawing, tawney, tawneys, tawnier, tawnies, tawniest, tawnily, tawniness, tawninesses, tawny, tawpie, tawpies, taws, tawse, tawsed, tawses, tawsing. (additional references)

Words ending with "taw": ringtaw, staw. (additional references)

Words containing "taw": castaway, castaways, catawba, catawbas, cutaway, cutaways, getaway, getaways, mulligatawnies, mulligatawny, ringtaws, straightaway, straightaways, thataway. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Taw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atow, atw, taiw, taj, taq, tauw, tav, tawd, tawe, Tawi, ta'wiz, tawk, tawm, tawn, tawt, tbw, teaw, teq, tewa, tewd, tewe, tewl, tewt, tewy, tfw, tiq, tiw, tlaw, toaw, touw, traw, trw, ttwa, tuw, tw, twa, twad, twae, twag, twai, twap, twar, twax, twd, twx, Tywi, uaw. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Taw

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: twa, wat.

Words within the letters "a-t-w"

-1 letter: at, aw, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-t-w"
 

+1 letter: dawt, staw, swat, taws, thaw, twae, twas, twat, waft, wait, want, wart, wast, wats, watt, what.

 

+2 letters: await, bawty, dawts, fatwa, straw, swart, swath, swats, sweat, tawed, tawer, tawie, tawny, tawse, thaws, thraw, trawl, twaes, twain, twang, twats, tweak, wafts, waist, waits, waltz, wants, warts, warty, waste, wasts, watap, watch, water, watts, whats, wheat, witan, wrapt, wrath.

 

+3 letters: abwatt, atwain, atween, awaits, bawtie, cowpat, dawted, dawtie, fatwas, outlaw, outsaw, outwar, pitsaw, rawest, straws, strawy, swarth, swarty, swatch, swathe, swaths, sweats, sweaty, tallow, tawdry, tawers, tawing, tawney, tawpie, tawsed, tawses, thawed, thawer, thrawn, thraws, thwack, thwart, towage, toward, trawls, twains, twangs, twangy, twanky, tweaks, tweaky, upwaft, wadset, wafted, wafter, waists, waited, waiter, wallet, walnut, wanted, wanter, wanton, wapiti, warmth, warted, wasted, waster, wastes, wastry, watape, wataps, waters, watery, watter, wattle, waucht, waught, wealth, wheats, withal, wombat, wraith, wraths, wrathy, wreath.

 

+4 letters: abwatts, antiwar, artwork, athwart, awaited, awaiter, awlwort, batfowl, batwing, bawsunt, bawties, beltway, bewrapt, brawest, catawba, catclaw, catspaw, catwalk, cowpats, cutaway, dawties, dawting, dewater, fanwort, fatwood, footway, fretsaw, gateway, getaway, lawsuit, madwort, outbawl, outdraw, outfawn, outgnaw, outlaws, outswam, outwait, outwalk, outward, outwars, outwash, outwear, partway, pathway, pitsaws, postwar, ragwort, rewrapt, ringtaw, rowboat, sawdust, seawant, steward, stewpan, stowage, strawed, swarths, swarthy, swathed, swather, swathes, swatted, swatter, sweated, sweater, tallows, tallowy, tarweed, tawneys, tawnier, tawnies, tawnily, tawpies, tawsing, taxiway, taxwise, teabowl, teaware, thawers, thawing, thrawed, thruway, thwacks, thwarts, tideway, tinware, tollway, towages, towards, towaway, towboat, towhead, towpath, tramway, trawled, trawler, trawley, trishaw, twaddle, twanged, twanger, twangle, twasome, twattle, tweaked, upwafts, vawntie, wadsets, waftage, wafters, wafting, wafture, wagtail, waisted, waister, waiters, waiting, walkout, wallets, walnuts, waltzed, waltzer, waltzes, waniest, wannest, wantage, wanters, wanting, wantons, wapitis, wariest, warmest, warmths, warpath, warrant, warstle, warthog, wartier, wartime, washout, washtub, wastage, wasters, wastery, wasting, wastrel, wastrie, watapes, watched, watcher, watches, watered, waterer, wattage, wattape, wattest, wattled, wattles, wauchts, waughts, wavelet, waviest, waxiest, weakest, wealths, wealthy, weather, wetback, wetland, wetware, whatnot, whatsis, whatsit, wheaten, whereat, wildcat, wiretap, wombats, woolhat, wraiths, wrastle, wrathed, wreathe, wreaths, wreathy.

 

+5 letters: antiwear, antiweed, artworks, atwitter, awaiters, awaiting, aweather, awlworts, batfowls, bawdiest, bedstraw, beltways, bestowal, browbeat, castaway, catawbas, catclaws, catspaws, catwalks, cityward, crewmate, cutaways, cutwater, damewort, danewort, dewaters, dogwatch, downbeat, downcast, drawtube, dwarfest, eastward, enswathe, entryway, eyewater, fanworts, fatwoods, fawniest, flatware, flatwash, flatways, flatwise, flatwork, flatworm, flawiest, fleawort, footwall, footways, footwear, fretsaws, gateways, gawkiest, getaways, giftware, giftwrap, gigawatt, handwrit, hatchway, hawkmoth, hawthorn, inswathe, interwar, kilowatt, knitwear, latewood, lathwork, lawsuits, leadwort, leftward, madworts, megawatt, midwatch, motorway, nanowatt, newscast, outbawls, outbrawl, outcrawl, outdrawn, outdraws, outfawns, outgnawn, outgnaws, outlawed, outlawry, outsware, outswear, outwaits, outwalks, outwards, outwaste, outwatch, outwears, outweary, pathways, pawkiest, radwaste, ragworts, ringtaws, routeway, rowboats, saltwork, saltwort, sandwort, sawdusts, sawteeth, sawtooth, seatwork, seawants, seawater, showboat, sightsaw, soapwort, software, somewhat, southpaw, stairway, stalwart, starwort, stemware, sternway, stewards, stewpans, stowable, stowages, stowaway, strawhat, strawier, strawing, swankest, swastica, swastika, swatches, swathers, swathing, swatters, swatting, sweatbox, sweaters, sweatier, sweatily, sweating, tailwind, takeaway, takedown, tallowed, tapeworm, tarweeds, taskwork, tawdrier, tawdries, tawdrily, tawniest, taxiways, teabowls, teakwood, teamwork, tearaway, teardown, teawares, terawatt, thataway, thawless, thrawart, thrawing, thrawnly, thruways, thwacked, thwacker, thwarted, thwarter, thwartly, tideways, tightwad, tinwares, tollways, tomahawk, towardly, towaways, towboats, towheads, townsman, townwear, towpaths, trackway, trainway, tramways, trawlers, trawleys, trawling, trawlnet, treelawn, trishaws, twaddled, twaddler, twaddles, twangers, twangier, twanging, twangled, twangler, twangles, twankies, twasomes, twattled, twattles, tweakier, tweaking, ultralow, unswathe, unthawed, untoward, unwanted, unwasted, upwafted, viewdata, wackiest, waftages, waftures, wagtails, wainscot, waisters, waisting, waitings, waitress, walkouts, waltzers, waltzing, wantages, wantoned, wantoner, wantonly, warcraft, warmouth, warpaths, warrants, warranty, warstled, warstler, warstles, warthogs, wartiest, wartimes, wartless, wartlike, washiest, washouts, washtubs, waspiest, wastable, wastages, wasteful, wastelot, wasterie, wasteway, wastrels, wastries, watchcry, watchdog, watchers, watcheye, watchful, watching, watchman, watchmen, watchout, waterage, waterbed, waterdog, waterers, waterier, waterily, watering, waterish, waterlog, waterloo, waterman, watermen, waterway, wattages, wattapes, watthour, wattless, wattling, wauchted, waughted, wavelets, waxplant, weariest, weathers, westward, wetbacks, wetlands, wettable, wetwares, whatever, whatness, whatnots, whatsits, wheatear, wheatens, whinchat, whiptail, whitecap, whitrack, widthway, wildcats, willyart, wiretaps, wistaria, wisteria, withdraw, woodchat, woolhats, workboat, workmate, wrastled, wrastles, wrathful, wrathier, wrathily, wrathing, wreathed, wreathen, wreathes, writable, yawmeter.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Taw


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

54 61 77

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)

01010100 01100001 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0077

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

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

546789

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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