yaw

yaw

See also: Yaw

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: yô, IPA^(key): /jɔː/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː
• Homophones: yore, your, you're (some non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Compare to yar.

Noun

yaw (plural yaws)

1. The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
2. The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
3. (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
4. The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.

   the yaw of an aircraft

Derived terms

• adverse yaw
• yaw damper

Translations

The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kääntyminen (fi) French: lacet (fr) m Georgian: კურსიდან გადახვევა (ḳursidan gadaxveva) German: Gieren n Greek: ελιγμός (el) m (eligmós) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Italian: imbardata (it) f Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Polish: odchylenie (pl) n, obrót (pl) m Portuguese: guinada (pt) f Russian: поворо́т вокру́г вертикальной оси (povorót vokrúg vertikalʹnoj osi), рысканье (ru) n (ryskanʹje) Swedish: gir (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can

The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile

Finnish: kääntyminen (fi) German: Gierwinkel m Russian: у́гол рысканья n (úgol ryskanʹja)

A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness

Finnish: mutkailu French: lacet (fr) m Italian: straorzata f Spanish: guiñada (es) f

The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis

Finnish: kääntyminen (fi) German: Gierwinkel m

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Italian: imbardata (it) f

Verb

yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)

1. (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
2. (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
3. (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
   • 1867, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels

     Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.

4. (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

Translations

To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course

Czech: stočit se pf, stáčet se impf Finnish: kääntyä (fi) German: gieren (de) Hebrew: הִסְתַבְסֵב‎ (he) m (histavsev) Portuguese: guinar (pt)

To swerve off course to port or starboard

Czech: měnit kurs impf, změnit kurs pf, zatočit pf, zatáčet impf Finnish: poiketa (fi)

To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course

Hebrew: הִסְתַבְסֵב‎ (he) m (histavsev) Maori: wherori, tiwai

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German: 1. schwanken Italian: imbardare

See also

• heading
• pitch
• roll
• surge
• scend

Noun

yaw (plural yaws)

1. A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
   • 1770, William Northcote, The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery (page 408)

     Sometimes there remains one large Yaw, high and knobbed, red and moist; this is called the master Yaw; […]

Homophones

• Homophones: Yaw, yore, your, you're

Anagrams

• 'way, Way, way, wya

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Kalasha

Conjunction

yaw

1. or

Synonyms

• khoyo

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Matal

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn. Cognate with Wandala yawe, Podoko yəwa, Moloko yàm, etc.

Noun

yaw

1. water

References

• Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007), page 56

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Middle English

Pronoun

yaw

1. Alternative form of yow

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Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *jaw (“market”). Cognate with Khasi ïew (“market”), taïew (“week”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaw/

Noun

yaw

1. market
2. week