Crossword clues for yaw
yaw
- Kin of pitch and roll
- Deviate, nautically
- Deviate from a straight course
- Captain's problem
- Wobble of a missile in flight
- Weave on a straight course
- Veer, in space
- Veer, at sea
- Veer, as a ship
- Veer from a course
- Veer as you steer
- Twisting motion
- Twist in flight
- Swerve from a course
- Swerve (nautical)
- Space term
- Side-to-side nautical movement
- Side-to-side motion
- Ship's zigzag
- Ship's veer
- Rudder-controlled movement
- Rotate about the vertical axis, as a rocket
- Rotate about an axis, as a plane
- Relative of pitch
- Plane's twist
- Partner of "pitch" and "roll"
- Nautical deviation
- Mission Control concern
- Missile wobble
- List ( As a ship )
- Jet's twisting motion
- It puts one off-course
- Deviation in flight
- Deviation controlled by a rudder
- Deviate, at sea
- Deviate from one's course, as a ship or plane
- Deviate erratically, at sea
- Counterpart of pitch
- Complement of pitch and roll
- Aeronautic twist
- A plane's rudder controls it
- Go off course, nautically
- Rocket's deviation
- Deviation at sea
- NASA deviation
- Pilot's problem
- It puts you off course
- Deviate from a direct course
- Deviation in a rocket's course
- Partner of pitch and roll
- Not fly absolutely straight
- Rocket measure
- Deviate from a course, at sea
- Go slightly off course
- Deviate from the course
- Ship's departure?
- Not pitch or roll, say
- Veer off course, as a ship
- Deviate from one's path
- Deviate during flight, as a rocket
- Deviate erratically from a course
- An erratic deflection from an intended course
- Deviate off course
- Swerve, as a ship
- Lurch
- Swerve, at sea
- Swerve at sea
- Veer at sea
- Veer, as a ship in a storm
- Shift course
- Course deviation
- Side-to-side movement
- Sail off course
- Twist in the sky
- Swerve off course momentarily
- Deviate from course
- Become deflected
- Swing around, as a ship
- Sail off-course
- Swing back and forth, as a ship
- Swerve, nautically
- Nautical swerve
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yaw \Yaw\ (y[add]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yawed (y[add]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Yawing.] [Cf. Yew, v. i.] To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
Yaw \Yaw\, v. i. & t. [Cf. Prov. G. gagen to rock, gageln to totter, shake, Norw. gaga to bend backward, Icel. gagr bent back, gaga to throw the neck back.] (Naut.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.
Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing
being out of the question.
--Lowell.
Yaw \Yaw\, n. (Naut.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to fall away from the line of a course," 1580s (as a noun 1540s), perhaps ultimately from Old Norse jaga, Old Danish jæge "to drive, chase," from Middle Low German jagen (see yacht).
Wiktionary
n. 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 An act of yawing. 4 (context nautical English) A vessel's motion rotate about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness. 5 The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis vb. 1 (context intransitive aviation English) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. 2 (context intransitive nautical English) To swerve off course to port or starboard. 3 (context intransitive nautical English) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course. 4 (context intransitive English) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
WordNet
n. an erratic deflection from an intended course [syn: swerve]
Wikipedia
Yaw may refer to:
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Yaw angle, one of the Tait-Bryan angles, describing the heading of a vehicle or machine, and some other related elements:
- Yaw system, component responsible for the orientation of a wind turbine towards the wind.
- Yaw bearing, one of the components to keep optimal heading in a wind turbine.
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Yaw, rotation around the vertical axis in aircraft, an aspect of flight dynamics and some other related elements:
- Yaw (rotation)
- Yaw rate sensor, angular speed of yaw rotation
- Yaw (god), Levantine god
- Yaw drive, wind turbine component
- CFB Shearwater, Shearwater, Nova Scotia Canada
- Ellen Beach Yaw (1869–1947), concert singer
- Yàw, Thursday, see Akan day names
- Yaw-Yan, Filipino martial art
- Yaws, tropical disease
- Yaws (web server)
- Yaw (ethnic group), a Burmese ethnic group
- YAW (Yoonu Askaan Wi), a Senegalese political party
- Yaw, a Ghanaian name for a boy born on Thursday
- YAW, an acronym for You Are Welcome
A yaw rotation is a movement around the yaw axis of a rigid body that changes the direction it is pointing, to the left or right of its direction of motion. The yaw rate or yaw velocity of a car, aircraft, projectile or other rigid body is the angular velocity of this rotation, or rate of change of the heading angle when the aircraft is horizontal. It is commonly measured in degrees per second or radians per second.
Another important concept is the yaw moment, or yawing moment, which is the component of a torque about the yaw axis.
Yaw is a masculine given name originating from the Ashanti people and their day naming system, meaning born on a Thursday.
- Yaw Antwi (born 1985), Ghanaian footballer playing in Serbia
- Yaw Amankwah Mireku (born 1979), Ghanaian footballer
- Yaw Asante (born 1991), Ghanaian footballer playing in Italy
- Yaw Berko (born 1980), Ghanaian footballer playing in Tanzania
- Yaw Danso (born 1989), Ghanaian footballer playing in Puerto Rico
- Yaw Fosu-Amoah (born 1981), South African long jumper
- Yaw Frimpong (born 1986), Ghanaian footballer playing in Congo
- Yaw Ihle Amankwah (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer playing in Norway
- Yaw Ofori Debrah, Ghanaian disabled rights activist
- Yaw Osafo-Marfo, Ghanaian politician and former minister for Education and Finance
- Yaw Preko (born 1974), Ghanaian former international footballer
- George Yaw Boakye (1937–1979), Ghanaian airman and politician
- Joachim Yaw (born 1973), Ghanaian former international footballer and Olympic medalist
- Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah (1920–1990), Ghanaian academic and director of the Encyclopedia Africana
- Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah (born 1964), Ghanaian boxer and former world champion
- Nicholas Yaw Boafo Adade, Ghanaian former supreme court judge
- Paul Yaw Addo (born 1990), Ghanaian footballer playing in Norway
- Samuel Yaw Adusei, Ghanaian politician
- William Yaw Obeng (born 1983), Ghanaian former American football offensive lineman
Usage examples of "yaw".
All white men in the Solomons catch yaws, and every cut or abrasion practically means another yaw.
Malaria, malnutrition, river blindness, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, yaws, bilharzia, and rift valley fever were everywhere in retreat under the benign rule of the Pan-African Federation.
Mateu, the unvindictive Gloire did not yaw to reply, but hauled her wind.
The see-saw bridged the gap between two types of space, and La Cucaracha yawed wildly down it, an indignity for an old lady who, at her age, should ride sedately through free void-but she was a hyper ship first and a lady second.
Tore it off with a shreek, terrible, shuddering bang, and then came a grating sound of shearing metal, exploding in his ears, the Norseman yawing violently to the left.
Toward one of the largest of them, it dips, then yaws and sideslips like a falling leaf into a paved, palm-lined courtyard where fountains play with rainbows.
Then Sulke turned our collective attention to the roll and yaw techniques, which took up the rest of the class period.
Once they were in the heart of the Yaw Ma Tei district, the congestion got worse still.
He pretended to be the friend of Yawer Cameron, then betrayed him, and he will do the same to you.
The yawer, balked of his prey, must have decided to linger outside to see what he could learn.
Ross worked his way through the sweaty enthusiastic crowd, Yawer Shahid Mahmud and another soldier behind him.
Juliet slipped cautiously around the corner of the stables, only to run straight into the unsteady form of Yawer Shahid Mahmud.
However, he was outranked and outshouted, so grudgingly he allowed the yawer to take three soldiers.
A tall bearded Pathan had a terrifying few minutes at the hands of a Bokharan soldier before the yawer himself verified that the suspect was not Khilburn.
Your mission is over, for your officer, Yawer Shahid Mahmud, is dead and the ferengi is mortally wounded.