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Definition of w in English English dictionary

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Wins; number of games won by a particular pitcher
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Wednesday
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The statistic for the number of wins by a team or player limited by some criteria (e.g. this season, at home, on turf)
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Nickname for George W. Bush
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wickets
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west
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watt
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Witness
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White
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The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, called double U and written in the Latin script
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Work
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{i} bright-gray rare metallic element having a high melting point and used in alloys of metal(Chemistry)
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The symbol for the element tungsten. Welsh. the 23rd letter of the English alphabet
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direction in which the sun sets, direction opposite east on a compass
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Etymologically it is most related to v and u
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See V, and U
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a heavy gray-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
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Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc
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See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 266-268
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the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how
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{i} unit of electricity, unit of electrical power
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the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet
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a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm
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the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
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It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U
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{i} 23rd letter of the alphabet