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Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
Marshall Herskovitz

Meaning of "gawk" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GAWK

From Old Danish gaukr; probably related to gape.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GAWK

gawk  [ɡɔːk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAWK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gawk is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gawk in English.

WHAT DOES GAWK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gawk in the English dictionary

The definition of gawk in the dictionary is a clumsy stupid person; lout. Other definition of gawk is to stare in a stupid way; gape.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GAWK

PRESENT

Present
I gawk
you gawk
he/she/it gawks
we gawk
you gawk
they gawk
Present continuous
I am gawking
you are gawking
he/she/it is gawking
we are gawking
you are gawking
they are gawking
Present perfect
I have gawked
you have gawked
he/she/it has gawked
we have gawked
you have gawked
they have gawked
Present perfect continuous
I have been gawking
you have been gawking
he/she/it has been gawking
we have been gawking
you have been gawking
they have been gawking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I gawked
you gawked
he/she/it gawked
we gawked
you gawked
they gawked
Past continuous
I was gawking
you were gawking
he/she/it was gawking
we were gawking
you were gawking
they were gawking
Past perfect
I had gawked
you had gawked
he/she/it had gawked
we had gawked
you had gawked
they had gawked
Past perfect continuous
I had been gawking
you had been gawking
he/she/it had been gawking
we had been gawking
you had been gawking
they had been gawking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will gawk
you will gawk
he/she/it will gawk
we will gawk
you will gawk
they will gawk
Future continuous
I will be gawking
you will be gawking
he/she/it will be gawking
we will be gawking
you will be gawking
they will be gawking
Future perfect
I will have gawked
you will have gawked
he/she/it will have gawked
we will have gawked
you will have gawked
they will have gawked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been gawking
you will have been gawking
he/she/it will have been gawking
we will have been gawking
you will have been gawking
they will have been gawking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would gawk
you would gawk
he/she/it would gawk
we would gawk
you would gawk
they would gawk
Conditional continuous
I would be gawking
you would be gawking
he/she/it would be gawking
we would be gawking
you would be gawking
they would be gawking
Conditional perfect
I would have gawk
you would have gawk
he/she/it would have gawk
we would have gawk
you would have gawk
they would have gawk
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been gawking
you would have been gawking
he/she/it would have been gawking
we would have been gawking
you would have been gawking
they would have been gawking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you gawk
we let´s gawk
you gawk
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to gawk
Past participle
gawked
Present Participle
gawking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GAWK


balk
bɔːk
boardwalk
ˈbɔːdˌwɔːk
catwalk
ˈkætˌwɔːk
chalk
tʃɔːk
cork
kɔːk
dork
dɔːk
fork
fɔːk
hawk
hɔːk
Hawke
hɔːk
mohawk
ˈməʊhɔːk
orc
ɔːk
pork
pɔːk
sidewalk
ˈsaɪdˌwɔːk
stalk
stɔːk
stork
stɔːk
talk
tɔːk
tomahawk
ˈtɒməˌhɔːk
torque
tɔːk
walk
wɔːk
york
jɔːk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAWK

gavelman
gavelock
gavial
gavialoid
gavot
gavotte
Gawd
gawker
gawkier
gawkiest
gawkihood
gawkily
gawkiness
gawkish
gawkishly
gawkishness
gawky
gawp
gawper
gawpus

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAWK

ballhawk
bush-hawk
chawk
Cooper´s hawk
dawk
duck hawk
eagle-hawk
fish hawk
goshawk
Kitty Hawk
lawk
marsh hawk
mawk
newshawk
nighthawk
pigeon hawk
seahawk
sparrow hawk
sparrowhawk
squawk

Synonyms and antonyms of gawk in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GAWK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gawk» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gawk
boor · churl · clod · clodhopper · dolt · dunderhead · galoot · gape · gawp · goggle · ignoramus · lout · lubber · lummox · oaf · ogle · stare

Translation of «gawk» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAWK

Find out the translation of gawk to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gawk from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gawk» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

呆子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gawk
570 millions of speakers

English

gawk
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्ख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البله
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поглазеть
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

embasbacar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জবুথবু ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bouche bée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hinggap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gaffen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

gawkは
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

둔한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gawk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gawk
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gawk
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भपका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ahmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gawk
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gawk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повитріщатися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bălălău
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μπούφος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lummel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gawk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

glaner
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gawk

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAWK»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GAWK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gawk

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QUOTES WITH «GAWK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gawk.
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Marshall Herskovitz
Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAWK»

Discover the use of gawk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gawk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Linux and Unix Shell Pocket Programmer
The Gawk filter differs from other filters you have seen in that it has no pre- defined task to perform. The filters you have examined so far were all designed to perform very specific tasks such as searching text or sorting lines. The Gawk filter  ...
Richard Petersen, 2008
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Linux Shells by Example
Awk is a UNIX/Linux programming language used for manipulating data and generating reports. Nawk is a newer version. and Gawk is the Gnu version. The data may come from standard input. one or more files. or as output from a process.
Ellie Quigley, 2000
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Effective awk Programming: Text Processing and Pattern Matching
from Chapter 12, A Library of awk Functions, and the igawk program from the section “An Easy Way to Use Library Functions” in Chapter 13, are included as ready-to-use files in the gawk distribution. They are installed as part of the installation ...
Arnold Robbins, 2001
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Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible
To terminate the gawk program, you must signal that the data stream has ended. The bash shell provides a key combination to generate an End-of-File (EOF) character. The Ctrl-D key combination generates an EOF character in bash.
Richard Blum, 2008
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A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8
gawk {print $3, $1} cars gawk: cmd. line:2: (END OF FILE) gawk: cmd. line:2: parse error The next command line includes a typo (prinnt) that gawk does not catch. Instead of issuing an error message, gawk simply does not do anything useful: ...
Mark G. Sobell, 2003
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Beginning Shell Scripting
What. Is. awk. (Gawk/Mawk/Nawk/Oawk)? Awk was first designed by Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian W. Kernighan at AT&T Bell Laboratories. (If you take the first letter of each of their last names, you see the origin of awk.) ...
Eric Foster-Johnson, John C. Welch, Micah Anderson, 2005
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Linux From Scratch (LFS) 7.1
The Gawk package contains programs for manipulating text files. Approximate build time: 0.2 SBU Required disk space: 28 MB 6.39.1. Installation of Gawk Prepare Gawk for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib Compile the ...
Gerard Beekmans
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The Linux Web Server Cd Bookshelf: Version 2.0
gawk is the GNU version of awk, a powerful pattern-matching program for processing text files that may be composed of fixed- or variable-length records separated by some delineator (by default, a newline character). gawk may be used from ...
Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron Weber, 2003
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Sed & Awk
(This originated in MKS awk, was adopted by gawk, and then added to the Bell Labs awk.) • The ENVIRON array was added. (This was developed independently for both MKS awk and gawk, and then added to the Bell Labs awk. ) In 1993 ...
Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins, 1997
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Linux in a Nutshell
gawk and r if the root directory. Any user with permission to read /dev/ kmem and /dev/mem can use fuser, but only a privileged user can terminate another user's process. fuser does not work on remote (NFS) files. If more than one group of ...
Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAWK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gawk is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Poldark' Episode 4 Recap: Ignominy vs. Constancy - The New York …
The Warleggans crash Francis's Christmas party to gawk at Ross's bride. Infamy. • Elizabeth and Demelza team up to fend off a series of cutting ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Sudan is the last male northern white rhino in the world | Stuff.co.nz
Twice a day, at 8.30 and 4, truckloads of tourists arrive to gawk and take photographs, $60 a piece to see what extinction looks like. He is a ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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A sideshow of an Appalachian novel - Macleans.ca
... girlfriend, he's scheduled to hang—in Cinder Bottom, the town's red-light district—as a crowd of 3,000 gathers to gawk at the novelty. «Macleans.ca, Jul 15»
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'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' Review: Into The Great Wide Open - Forbes
And times when the view of some soaring peaks or strange otherwordly land make you stop and gawk. Skyrim cannot hold a candle to The ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
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Why censorship remains essential — Adrian Lee Yuen Beng | What …
For sure, women dressed in non-skimpy attires would've helped many to not gawk and gape as they can now resist the temptation, enticement ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
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Your Haute Guide to Monterey Car Week - Haute Living
Beginning at 10:30 a.m., spectators can gawk at about 200 of the most prized collector cars and motorcycles in the world as the haute wheels ... «Haute Living, Jul 15»
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Review: 'The Blue Girl,' by Laurie Foos; neurosis in a small town …
As three women and their three daughters gawk and watch the blue girl flail about, a sensitive teenager named Audrey swims out to save her. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
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Jurassic World - A Typewriter Review - The Typewriter
Gray and Zach do not spend time with her until halfway through the movie, their services used elsewhere to gawk at the CGI dinosaurs that run ... «The Typewriter, Jul 15»
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WRITE ON: A Schuyler solar explosion - Finger Lakes Times: Opinion
Solar panels a few years ago were anomalous enough around the southern end of Seneca Lake that people would stop and gawk at homes ... «Finger Lakes Times, Jul 15»
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That time Jeb Bush invited 300 top donors to his parents' house …
... could easily watch the proceedings from a public overlook about 1,200 yards to the west, where tourists and locals often gawk at the property. «Washington Post, Jul 15»

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