awe - English dictionary definition

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Awe Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
Awe The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
Awe To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
AWE AWE Advanced WavEffect AWG American Wire Gauge awk 1. Named from the authors' initials An interpreted language included with many versions of Unix for massaging text data, developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan in 1978. It is characterised by C-like syntax, declaration-free variables, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing. There is a GNU version called gawk and other varients including bawk, mawk, nawk, tawk. Perl was inspired in part by awk but is much more powerful. Unix manual page: awk1. netlib WWW http://plan9.att.com/netlib/research/index.html. netlib FTP ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/. ["The AWK Programming Language" A. Aho, B. Kernighan, P. Weinberger, A-W 1988]. 2. An expression which is awkward to manipulate through normal regexp facilities, for example, one containing a newline. [Jargon File]