yaw
enPR: yô, IPA(key): /jɔː/
Rhymes: -ɔː
Homophones: yore, your, you're (some non-rhotic accents), y'all (with l-vocalization)
Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
yaw (plural yaws)
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.
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.
(nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
Coordinate terms: pitch, roll
adverse yaw
yaw damper
yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)
(intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
(intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
(intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
(intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
heading
pitch
roll
surge
scend
yaw (plural yaws)
A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
'way, Way, way, wya
yaw
or
khoyo
Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn. Cognate with Wandala yawe, Podoko yəwa, Moloko yàm, etc.
yaw
water
Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007), page 56
yaw
Alternative form of yow
From Proto-Khasian *jaw (“market”). Cognate with Khasi ïew (“market”), taïew (“week”).
IPA(key): /jaw/
yaw
market
week
(internet slang) Alternative spelling of yav.