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Waw vs Wae - What's the difference?

waw | wae |

As nouns the difference between waw and wae

is that waw is a wave while wae is woe.

As a verb waw

is to stir; move; wave.

As an initialism WAE is

wireless Application Environment.

waw

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wawen, .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stir; move; wave.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wawe, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, water) A (l).
  • * , II.xii:
  • nigh it drawes / All passengers, that none from it can shift: / For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, / They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes .

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with Scots (m), (m).

    Alternative forms

    * * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wall
  • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) . * Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ** Last: ** Next:

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: .
  • Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----

    wae

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (telecommunications) Wireless Application Environment.
  • (computing) Web Application Extension.
  • (US, government) While actually employed.
  • Anagrams

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