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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024yaw1 /yɔ/USA pronunciation v. [no object]- Nautical, Naval Termsto turn or move away temporarily from a straight course, as a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft:The ship yawed to starboard.
n. [countable] - Naval Termsthe movement of yawing.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024yaw1 (yô),USA pronunciation v.i. - Nautical, Naval Termsto deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- Aeronautics(of an aircraft) to have a motion about its vertical axis.
- Rocketry(of a rocket or guided missile) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by oscillation of the longitudinal axis in the horizontal plane.
v.t. - Nautical, Naval Termsto cause to yaw.
n. - Nautical, Naval Termsa movement of deviation from a direct course, as of a ship.
- Aeronauticsa motion of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
- Aeronautics, Aerospacean angle, to the right or left, determined by the direction of motion of an aircraft or spacecraft and its vertical and longitudinal plane of symmetry.
- Rocketry(of a rocket or guided missile)
- the act of yawing.
- the angular displacement of the longitudinal axis due to yawing.
- origin, originally uncertain 1540–50
- Pathologyone of the lesions of yaws.
- back formation from yaws 1735–45
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: yaw /jɔː/ vb - (intransitive) (of an aircraft, missile, etc) to turn about its vertical axis
- (intransitive) (of a ship, etc) to deviate temporarily from a straight course
- (transitive) to cause (an aircraft, ship, etc) to yaw
n - the angular movement of an aircraft, missile, etc, about its vertical axis
- the deviation of a vessel from a straight course
Etymology: 16th Century: of unknown origin |