wish-wash : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   wage hike
         n 1: the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he
               got a wage hike" [syn: {raise}, {rise}, {wage hike},
               {hike}, {wage increase}, {salary increase}]

English Dictionary: wish-wash	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wages n a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" Synonym(s): wages, reward, payoff
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wagga Wagga n a town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales; agricultural trading center
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waggish adj witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Waikiki n a well-known beach and resort area on Oahu Island to the southeast of Honolulu
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
washhouse n a building or outbuilding where laundry is done
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wessex n a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wigwag v send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wise guy n an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments Synonym(s): wise guy, smart aleck, wiseacre, wisenheimer, weisenheimer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wish-wash n any thin watery drink nonsensical talk or writing Synonym(s): folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wishy-washy adj weak in willpower, courage or vitality [syn: {namby- pamby}, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
WYSIWYG adj relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wages \Wa"ges\, n. plural in termination, but singular in signification. [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See {Wage}, n.] A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See {Wage}, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. --Rom. vi. 23. {Wages fund} (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account. --Encyc. Brit. Syn: See under {Wage}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wager \Wa"ger\, n. {Wagering, [or] gambling}, {contract}. A contract which is of the nature of wager. Contracts of this nature include various common forms of valid commercial contracts, as contracts of insurance, contracts dealing in futures, options, etc. Other wagering contracts and bets are now generally made illegal by statute against betting and gambling, and wagering has in many cases been made a criminal offence. Wages \Wa"ges\, n. pl. (Theoretical Economics) The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms. This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waggish \Wag"gish\ (-g[icr]sh), a. 1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. [bd]A company of waggish boys.[b8] --L'Estrange. 2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- {Wag"gishly}, adv. -- {Wag"gishness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Washhouse \Wash"house`\, n. An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Way-goose \Way"-goose`\, n. See {Wayz-goose}, n., 2. [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wayz-goose \Wayz"-goose`\, n. [Wase stubble + goose.] 1. A stubble goose. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also {way-goose}.] [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Way-goose \Way"-goose`\, n. See {Wayz-goose}, n., 2. [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wayz-goose \Wayz"-goose`\, n. [Wase stubble + goose.] 1. A stubble goose. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also {way-goose}.] [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wayz-goose \Wayz"-goose`\, n. [Wase stubble + goose.] 1. A stubble goose. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also {way-goose}.] [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weakish \Weak"ish\, a. Somewhat weak; rather weak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weighage \Weigh"age\ (?; 48), n. A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. --Bouvier.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weigh-house \Weigh"-house`\, n.; pl. {Weigh-houses}. A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whiggish \Whig"gish\, a. Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whiskey \Whis"key\, Whisky \Whis"ky\, n.; pl. {Whiskeys}or {Whiskies}. [See {Whisk}, v. t. & n.] A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also {tim-whiskey}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whiskey \Whis"key\, Whisky \Whis"ky\, n.; pl. {Whiskeys}or {Whiskies}. [See {Whisk}, v. t. & n.] A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also {tim-whiskey}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wigwag \Wig"wag`\, v. i. [See {Wag}, v. t.] (Naut.) To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wigwag \Wig"wag`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Wigwagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wigwagging}.] To move to and fro, to wag.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wigwag \Wig"wag`\, n. [See {Wigwag}, v. t. & i.] Act or art of wigwagging; a message wigwagged; -- chiefly attributive; as, the wigwag code. -- {Wig"wag`er}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wish-wash \Wish"-wash`\, n. Any weak, thin drink.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wishy-washy \Wish"y-wash`y\, a. [See {Wash}.] Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own. --A. Trollope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wishy-washy \Wish"y-wash`y\, n. A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waseca, MN (city, FIPS 68296) Location: 44.08112 N, 93.50193 W Population (1990): 8385 (3356 housing units) Area: 8.6 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56093
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waskish, MN Zip code(s): 56685
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wassaic, NY Zip code(s): 12592
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waukesha, WI (city, FIPS 84250) Location: 43.01247 N, 88.23821 W Population (1990): 56958 (22065 housing units) Area: 44.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53186, 53188
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wausaukee, WI (village, FIPS 84525) Location: 45.37855 N, 87.95498 W Population (1990): 656 (333 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54177
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wauzeka, WI (village, FIPS 84725) Location: 43.08437 N, 90.89546 W Population (1990): 595 (247 housing units) Area: 12.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53826
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waxahachie, TX (city, FIPS 76816) Location: 32.40719 N, 96.85200 W Population (1990): 18168 (6981 housing units) Area: 80.7 sq km (land), 3.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75165
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Weeki Wachee, FL (city, FIPS 75625) Location: 28.51517 N, 82.57874 W Population (1990): 53 (29 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wickes, AR (town, FIPS 75500) Location: 34.29973 N, 94.33522 W Population (1990): 570 (210 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71973
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wishek, ND (city, FIPS 87020) Location: 46.25565 N, 99.55520 W Population (1990): 1171 (569 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wysox, PA Zip code(s): 18854
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
wugga wugga /wuh'g* wuh'g*/ n. Imaginary sound that a computer program makes as it labors with a tedious or difficult task.{grind} (sense 4).
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
WYSIAYG /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is _All_ You Get"; an unhappy variant of {WYSIWYG}. Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth; they often frustrate advanced users who would be better served by a command-style interface. When this happens, the frustrated user has a WYSIAYG problem. This term is most often used of editors, word processors, and document formatting programs. WYSIWYG `desktop publishing' programs, for example, are a clear win for creating small documents with lots of fonts and graphics in them, especially things like newsletters and presentation slides. When typesetting book-length manuscripts, on the other hand, scale changes the nature of the task; one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations, and the increased power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like {{TeX}} or Unix's {{troff}} becomes not just desirable but a necessity. Compare {YAFIYGI}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
WYSIWYG /wiz'ee-wig/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What You See Is What You Get", as opposed to one that uses more-or-less obscure commands that do not result in immediate visual feedback. True WYSIWYG in environments supporting multiple fonts or graphics is a a rarely-attained ideal; there are variants of this term to express real-world manifestations including WYSIAWYG (What You See Is _Almost_ What You Get) and WYSIMOLWYG (What You See Is More or Less What You Get). All these can be mildly derogatory, as they are often used to refer to dumbed-down {user-friendly} interfaces targeted at non-programmers; a hacker has no fear of obscure commands (compare {WYSIAYG}). On the other hand, {EMACS} was one of the very first WYSIWYG editors, replacing (actually, at first overlaying) the extremely obscure, command-based {TECO}. See also {WIMP environment}. [Oddly enough, WYSIWYG has already made it into the OED, in lower case yet. --ESR] = X =
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WYSIAYG {What You See Is All You Get}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WYSIWYG {What You See Is What You Get}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Wages Rate of (mention only in Matt. 20:2); to be punctually paid (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15); judgements threatened against the withholding of (Jer. 22:13; Mal. 3:5; comp. James 5:4); paid in money (Matt. 20:1-14); to Jacob in kind (Gen. 29:15, 20; 30:28; 31:7, 8, 41).