w
pronunciation
How to pronounce w in British English:
UK ['dʌblju:]
How to pronounce w in American English:
US ['dʌblju]
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- Noun:
- 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
- the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
- 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
- the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet
Word Origin
- W
- not in the Roman alphabet, but the Modern English sound it represents is close to the devocalized consonant expressed by Roman -U- or -V-. In Old English, this originally was written -uu-, but by 8c. began to be expressed by the runic character wyn (Kentish wen), which looked like this: ƿ (the character is a late addition to the online font set and doesn't display properly on many computers, so it's something like a combination of lower-case -p- and a reversed -y-). In 11c., Norman scribes introduced -w-, a ligatured doubling of Roman -u- which had been used on the continent for the Germanic "w" sound, and wyn disappeared c. 1300. -W- is not properly a letter in the modern French alphabet, and it is used there only in borrowed foreign words, such as wagon, weekend, Western, whisky, wombat.
Example
- 1. Is george w bush the worst ever us president ?
- 2. The rub was that both w and z are heavy .
- 3. W proclaimed himself a prince and continued watching his show .
- 4. I like the w seoul a lot great skyline views .
- 5. Circling or lining through the w lets you keep things simple simple is good .