What does DW stand for?

Double Word

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Information technology (IT) and computers

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Doctor Who (British TV sci-fi series) Docuware (document management System) Domestic Water Dominion Wars (Star Trek) Don't Worry Doo Wop Doomworld (website) Dora Winifred (Arthur cartoon) Double Window Double Wishbone (suspension)		Down Wind (aviation weather) Draconian Winter (band) Dragon Warrior (video game) Drain Wire (electricity) Dreamweaver (web design program) DreamWorks SKG Drinking Water (various organizations) Drum Workshop, Inc. Drunk Warrior (gaming clan) Dry Wall (construction)

Samples in periodicals archive:

double words and double ideas, which tempt the mind to pretense or to revolt, hypocrisy or to radicalism," DuBois wrote.

The Souls of Black folk--a teachable moment

The above squares are the analogue of double word squares.

Cubic word squares

CAPTION(S): DOUBLE WORD SCORE: Scott McDonald sizzles with two of Celtic's goals after assistance from Aiden McGeady - who terrorises Hibs kid Darren McCormack, top, and Scott Brown, below

WHAT IS AN ANAGRAM OF AIDEN McGEADY? A DYNAMIC EDGE; Clydesdale Bank ...

He" and "emu" on a double word score- so that's, er, 12.

LOST FOR words; A writer versus a weightlifter in a game of Scrabble? ...

Such a double life, with double thoughts, double duties, and double social classes, must give rise to double words and double ideals, and tempt the mind to pretence or to revolt, to hypocrisy or to radicalism.

We were neither fish nor fowl: "our pattern of education has been ...

Never mind the impossibility of working that out (triple letter score, double word score, etc) the word would not be allowed because it is a proper noun.

Not knowing the real score spells disaster in the studio; Armchair ...

And if the mood takes you, this game doesn't mind going for a dip while you try for a double word score.

Fresh air fun

Take amphibology, one of Barthes' favorites: The word "intelligence" can designate either the faculty of intellection or "complicity," or both: Each time he encounters one of these double words, R.

Roland Barthes: against language