Meaning of way | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Wayana
2. Christianity.
3. A surname.
4. A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.
   obsolete
5. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
6. To do with a place or places.
7. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
8. To do with a place or places. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another
9. A means to enter or leave a place.
10. From beginning to end; completely: drove all the way from Detroit to Pittsburgh.
11. Synonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.
    Chinese
12. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.
13. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another
14. A roughly-defined geographical area.
15. Incidentally: By the way, you forgot to cash that check.
16. Clipping of South Downs Way.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
17. A hamlet in Minster parish, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3265).
18. A means to enter or leave a place
19. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
20. To inconvenience oneself in doing something beyond what is required.
21. A roughly-defined geographical area
22. In a position to obstruct, hinder, or interfere.
23. A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
    usually
24. Certainly not: Did you like that movie?—No way! It was boring.
25. A state or condition
26. In the process of coming, going, or traveling: She is on her way out the door. Winter is on the way.
27. Personal interaction.
28. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
29. On the route of a journey: met him on the way to town; ran into them on the way.
30. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
31. In the manner that: The way he talks, you'd think he ran the company.
32. A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
    Germanic
33. (especially American) by a long distance or time; far. The winner finished the race way ahead of the other competitors; It's way past your bedtime. ver بِمَسافَةٍ طَويلَه أو بِوَقْت طَويلٍ далеч de longe daleko, dlouho weit langt κατά πολύ muy, mucho más; de sobra tublisti, kaugel(t) طولاني reilusti loinהרחק दूर dugo, puno messze jauh langt (á) (lontano) はるか 저 멀리에 toli tālu priekšā/pāri/virs lewat lang, verlangt; høytdaleko طولنی de longe (de) departe далеко ďaleko, dlho daleč odavno långt, h...
    especially American
34. Speed, progress, momentum.
    uncountable
35. a traveller, especially on foot. reisiger عابِر السَّبيل пътник viajante poutník, -ice der/die Reisende vejfarende ταξιδιώτης, οδοιπόρος caminante, viajero teekäija رهرو vaeltaja voyageur/-euse נודד राहगीर putnik, pješak utas(ember) pelancong ferðamaður/-langur viandante 旅行者 나그네, 여행자 keliautojas ceļotājs pengembara, musafir reizigerveifarende wędrowiec لاروى، بلى: پرديس viajante persoană care călătoreşte pe jos путник pútnik, -čka popotnik putnik pešak vägfarande, vandrare ผู้เดินทางโดยเฉพาะเ...
    especially
36. A degree, an amount, a sense.
37. Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
    US
38. The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
    plural, plural-only
39. A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.
    plural, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Do you know the way to the airport?  Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.  It's a long way from here.”

“Twenty miles is a long way to walk.”

“The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.”

“the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance”

“Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.”

“I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.”

“"It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]”

“"Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]”

“Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.”

“We got into the cinema through the back way.”

“Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.”

“If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.”

“You're going about it the wrong way.  He's known for his quirky ways.  I don't like the way she looks at me.”

““[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.””

“She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.”

“[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.”

“An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.”

“When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.”

“There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.”

“My little sister always whines until she gets her way.”

“To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)”

“Immediately afterwards, a quick and eager short dark man came into the room with so much way upon him that he was within a foot of Clennam before he could stop.”

“Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.”

“In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.”

“That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.”

“Way to ruin the moment, guys.”

“Jimmy leaned forward holding his ear, the personification of naïveté, looking as young as a baby with his oh-so-innocent face. “Oh, way to get us busted, Jimmy,” Curt hissed under his breath.”

“Oh, way to start a rumor, Hope. Angel glared the silent statement at her sister.”

“"Oh, way to care about how I feel." His voice took on an exaggerated “Valley Girl” tone.”

“By the time the Mauretania was ready for launching a total weight of 16,800 tons was standing in the berth, and this represented the heaviest weight that had ever been sent down the ways up to that time.”

“But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.”

“We're walking along the Way now.”

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