(a.) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end).
(a.) Clumsy in performance or manners; unhandy; not dexterous; awkward.
(adv.) Perversely; in the wrong way.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the journalist Anand Gopal has explained brilliantly , powerbrokers such as AWK and the Barakzai strongman and former Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai not only seized control of Nato purse-strings by acquiring lucrative contracts, but they also manipulated US intelligence and US special forces to gain help with their predatory and retaliatory agenda.
(2) The program is written in AWK (a small interpreted computer language), which can run on all computer platforms commonly found in laboratories.
(3) The problem of "malign actors" such as AWK could only be solved not by military force, but by a political process: President Karzai had to find a means to divorce himself from the warlords such as his brother and broaden the base of his political rule.
(4) The burial of of AWK , as he was known, passed without incident amid tight security provided by the Afghan national security forces.
(5) They worried about the power vacuum AWK would leave behind.
(6) Seventy per cent of Awkly patients virtually had no side-effects vs. 15% in the EPIbiwkly group.
(7) On the streets of Kandahar, where I stayed unembedded last year, I reported on how it was obvious the armed militias of AWK and other strongmen like Sherzai who ruled the roost were feared far more than the Taliban.
(8) Of the 149 patients evaluable for response, the response rate was 36% for Awkly vs. 22% for EPIbiwkly (P = 0.10).
(9) In this triumph of realpolitik, the death of AWK is a big setback.
(10) And so, just as the US hurried to defeat the Taliban in 2001 and needed the warlords to accomplish that task, as they prepare to leave, they risk depending on men such as AWK to secure their withdrawal.
(11) A case in point is an ally of AWK and notorious gangster in his own right, the border police chief Abdul Razaq.
(12) weekly (Awkly) as bolus injection or 50 mg 4-epidoxorubicin biweekly over a 3-h infusion time (EPIbiwkly).
(13) The actor in chief was the man universally referred to as AWK – Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, who was killed yesterday .
(14) They knew how dependent they were on him: it was AWK and Sherzai who staffed and guarded the Nato bases, who secured their vital road movements, provided intelligence and who supplied the manpower for some secret strike forces run by the CIA and US special forces.
(15) In the face of such analysis, Carter and his then commander, General Stan McChrystal , decided to face down AWK.
Awn
Definition:
(n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
Example Sentences:
(1) A continuous flow of men goes past the block, while young women in black and red underwear pose on high stools behind windows with red awnings.
(2) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
(3) Gorette-Nicaise, Awn, and Dhem (1983) as well as the study by Whetten, and Johnston (1985) have shown that neither the absence of the lateral pterygoid muscle nor the physical volumetric expansion of the airway increases condylar growth.
(4) Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani had spent 14 years in Guantánamo, where he was held without trial and was suspected of being an al-Qaida member who “possibly” worked as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, according to his leaked prisoner file.
(5) A small square building with a corrugated iron awning marks the corner with East Trenton Street.
(6) AWN may, thus, participate in the initial events of fertilization in the pig.
(7) The germination of freshly harvested seed is depressed following heat stress at 7--10 days after awn emergence, but is enhanced by the same stress applied 3 weeks after awn emergence.
(8) Analysis of the amino acid sequence of the AWN proteins showed significant similarity only to AQN-1 and AQN-3, two other boar spermadhesins.
(9) Hair thickness--especially at the thickest point--ranges from 140 to 236 microns for the awn hair and from 19 to 106 microns for the fur hair.
(10) Some of the “client accommodation” sits right on the road behind tall mesh, asylum seekers sitting in the shade of open awnings.
(11) The development of the allometric equation, Y = aWn, relating species body size (W) with various morphological, physiological, biochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological characteristics, as the fundamental basis for extrapolation of biological data from laboratory animals to man is outlined.
(12) The awn and the fur hair of Pudu were investigated.
(13) AWN exists as two isoforms, AWN-1 and AWN-2, which differ in that AWN-2 is N-terminally acetylated.
(14) In Type III, an "awning effect" of the acromion was observed to influence active motion.
(15) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
(16) This small standing-room-only taquería, identified on its awning with the single word "HOLA", is renowned locally, a favourite of Condesa hipsters.
(17) A green awning offers shade to those who visit with condolences for the death of his three year-old grandchild, while the young mother leans listless against a post of the house.
(18) They gathered, one week on to the minute from the assault of Friday the 13th, around what seemed to be a shadow devoid of life and light – a heavy black tarpaulin draped over the entrance to the Bataclan theatre: or “ba’ta’clan café”, as the awning reads.
(19) AQN-1 shares extensive structural, as well as functional, similarity with two other boar sperm zona-pellucida-binding proteins, AQN-3 and AWN, which we have recently characterized.
(20) Underneath an awning on the pontoon, a gigantic banner proclaims "Venezuela", a gift from the young musicians of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra.