Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation guaranteed annual wage
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boat-pole.
- noun A drain; a little ditch or trench; a grip.
- noun A mark left on the skin by a stroke or pressure.—2. A crease in cloth.
- noun A layer or stratum of a different kind of soil from the rest.
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Examples
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Highly acclaimed for its "literary stylings", GAW, in its final incarnation, was marketed to the wrong genre.
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PETER GAW was named president of CIT Energy, CIT Group Inc. 's energy group.
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Both global and regional GAW stations should be within 50-70 km of an up per air synoptic station.
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Rachel, if you could have seen me last night, when your voice filled my apartment via podcast, I was pawing the air and saying, GAW.
La Coquette: 2005
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GAW 2005
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Rachel, if you could have seen me last night, when your voice filled my apartment via podcast, I was pawing the air and saying, GAW.
GAW 2005
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GAW, an initiative of the World Meteorological Organisation, serves as an early warning and forecasting system for changes in the background chemical composition and related physical characteristics of the atmosphere.
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JOHN GAW has already been mentioned at page 504, as author of a rare work entitled "The Richt Way to Hevin," which bears to have been printed at Malmoe, (in Sweden,) in the year 1533.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Data released from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism (COGA) for Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 (GAW 14) were used to illustrate the application of this extended method.
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One more time ... congrats to all of our winners for the GAW contest.
Planet Geospatial 2009
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