shaw

¹

[shaw]

noun

1. Midland U.S.,  a small wood or thicket.

2. Scot.,  the stalks and leaves of potatoes, turnips, and other cultivated root plants.

Shaw

²

[shaw]

noun

1. Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.

2. Artie Arthur Arshawsky, 1910–2004, U.S. clarinetist and bandleader.

3. George Bernard, 1856–1950, Irish dramatist, critic, and novelist: Nobel Prize 1925.

4. Henry Wheeler. Billings, Josh.

5. Irwin, 1913–84, U.S. dramatist and author.

6. Richard Norman, 1831–1912, English architect, born in Scotland.

7. Thomas Edward. Lawrence, Thomas Edward.

Shaw

¹

/ ʃɔː /

noun

1. Artie, original name Arthur Arshawsky. 1910–2004, US jazz clarinetist, band leader, and composer

2. George Bernard, often known as GBS. 1856–1950, Irish dramatist and critic, in England from 1876. He was an active socialist and became a member of the Fabian Society but his major works are effective as satiric attacks rather than political tracts. These include Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1913), Back to Methuselah (1921), and St Joan (1923): Nobel prize for literature 1925

3. Richard Norman. 1831–1912, English architect

4. Thomas Edward. the name assumed by (T. E.) Lawrence after 1927

shaw

²

/ ʃɔː /

verb

1. to show

noun

1. a show

2. the part of a potato plant that is above ground

shaw

³

/ ʃɔː /

noun

1. archaic,  a small wood; thicket; copse

Word History and Origins

Origin of Shaw¹

before 900; Middle English shawe, Old English sceaga, scaga; akin to shag ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of Shaw¹

Old English sceaga; related to Old Norse skagi tip, skaga to jut out, skōgr forest, skegg beard

Example Sentences

Mr Jones and Ms Shaw resigned from the company earlier this year, and since then, head lessor Rockwell FC100 has taken control of the buildings and directly appointed another building management firm to run them.

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Analyst Lachlan Shaw says the bearish stock call rests on the subdued near-term outlook for coal used in steelmaking.

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“This is possible without an increase in the main rates of income tax but would involve a messier ‘smorgasbord’ of much smaller measures, including increased levies on individual sectors such as, quite possibly, the gaming sector and the banks,” said Philip Shaw, an economist at Investec.

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“In some cases, it’s been a direct 180,” Christopher DeGroff, a partner who represents employers at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, said of the EEOC’s shift in focus since the Biden administration.

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Shaw and a former CEO of Procter & Gamble.

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