wais

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A form of wai — A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.

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Meanings

wais1

noun
  1. pluralplural of wai

WAIS2

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

    Total loss of the WAIS would cause 5 metres of sea level rise.

    2022 August 10, Damian Carrington, “Fate of ‘sleeping giant’ East Antarctic ice sheet ‘in our hands’ – study”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
  3. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Wide Area Information Servers.

    Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.

    1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services”, in New York Times

Wais3

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Veys (“city in Iran”).

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

SiwaIswaSawiswai
Cite this entry
APA

wais. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wais

MLA

“wais.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wais. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wais,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wais.

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