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单词 yaws
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
yaws (yôz),USA pronunciation n. (used with a singular v.) [Pathol.]
  1. Pathologyan infectious, nonvenereal tropical disease, primarily of children, characterized by raspberrylike eruptions of the skin and caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue, that is closely related to the agent of syphilis. Also called frambesia, pian. Cf. mother yaw. 
  • Carib; see -s3
  • 1670–80

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
yaws /jɔːz/ n
  1. (usually functioning as singular) an infectious nonvenereal disease of tropical climates with early symptoms resembling syphilis, characterized by red skin eruptions and, later, pain in the joints: it is caused by the spiral bacterium Treponema pertenue
Etymology: 17th Century: of Carib origin
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
yaw1 /yɔ/USA pronunciation   v. [no object]
  1. 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]
  1. Naval Termsthe movement of yawing.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
yaw1 (yô),USA pronunciation  v.i. 
  1. Nautical, Naval Termsto deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
  2. Aeronautics(of an aircraft) to have a motion about its vertical axis.
  3. 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. 
  1. Nautical, Naval Termsto cause to yaw.

n. 
  1. Nautical, Naval Termsa movement of deviation from a direct course, as of a ship.
  2. Aeronauticsa motion of an aircraft about its vertical axis.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

yaw2 (yô),USA pronunciation n. [Pathol.]
  1. Pathologyone of the lesions of yaws.
  • back formation from yaws 1735–45

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
yaw /jɔː/ vb
  1. (intransitive) (of an aircraft, missile, etc) to turn about its vertical axis
  2. (intransitive) (of a ship, etc) to deviate temporarily from a straight course
  3. (transitive) to cause (an aircraft, ship, etc) to yaw
n
  1. the angular movement of an aircraft, missile, etc, about its vertical axis
  2. the deviation of a vessel from a straight course
Etymology: 16th Century: of unknown origin
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