Way

Definition: Way

Way

Adverb

1. (informal) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much; "way over budget"; "way off base"; "right smart" is regional (US S and Midland) as in "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on".

Noun

1. A manner of performance; "a manner of living"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a way of life".

2. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success".

3. A journey or passage; "they are on the way".

4. The condition of things generally; "that's the way it is" or "I felt the same way".

5. A course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path".

6. Any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out".

7. A line leading to a place or point: "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home".

8. The property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; (colloquial) "he went a long ways".

9. Doing as one pleases or chooses: "if I had my way".

10. : a general category of things; used in the expression "in the way of": "they didn't have much in the way of clothing".

11. : space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for": "hardly enough elbow room to turn around".

12. : a portion of something divided into shares: "the split the loot three ways".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "way" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Finance

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Tips from 1870

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WAY

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Way

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

Method

Noun: method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise; modus operandi, MO; procedure; (line of conduct).

Space

Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.

Crosswords: Way

Sranan (blow).

Your assertiveness tells me that you feel the same way about me. But ritual remains that we must do a series of platonic actions before we can have intercourse (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

The only way you can survive is to spread to another area (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

! Which on of you made me the way I am (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Well the bloody police must have heard it all the way to bloody Salisbury (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

Things are exactly the way they seem (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Misty water-colored mem'ries of the way we were ("The Way We Were"; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

It's just the way she winks her eye (That's The Way Love Is; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

But it's something about the way you look tonight (Something About The Way You Look Tonight; performing artist: Elton John)

Well, Oh, That's the way it is (That's The Way; performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)

And I like the innocent way that you cry (I Love The Way You Love Me; performing artist: John Michael Montgomery)

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. (references; author: Mark Twain)

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. (references; author: Woody Allen)

Save time; see it my way. (references; author: unknown)

The easy way is always mined. (references; author: unknown)

Incoming fire has the right of way. (references; author: unknown)

One Way (2002)

Apple's Way (1974)

The Way It Was (1974)

Remember Me This Way (1974)

Three the Hard Way (1974)

South American Way (performing artist: The Andrews Sisters)

Wasted On The Way (performing artist: Stills & Nash Crosby)

WORKIN'MY WAY BACK TO YOU  (performing artist: Four Seasons )

THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT (performing artist: FRANK SINATRA)

Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (performing artist: Freddy Cannon)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Right Way Industry: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love --The Love Connection to Codependence (reference)

• The Guide to Legally Obtaining a Foreign Passport: The Easy Way to Get Additional Citizenships (reference)

• No More Antibiotics: Preventing and Treating Ear and Respiratory Infections the Natural Way (reference)

• Baby on the Way (Sears Children Library) (reference)

• The Way Up from Down: A Safe New Program That Relieves Low Moods and Depression With Amino Acids and Vitamin Supplements (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Howard Way Letter (reference)

• Key Way (reference)

• Middle Way (reference)

• National Dog The Ringleader Way (reference)

• On The Way With American Baptist Women (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mythos II: The Inward Path, The Enlightened One, Our Eternal Selves, The Way to Illumination, The Experience of God (reference)

• Every Which Way but Loose (reference)

• Anyone Can Be An Expert Skier 1 - The New Way to Ski (reference)

• Keeping Up Appearances - Giftset 1 (Rural Retreat/Sea Fever/Angel Gabriel Blue/Entertaining the Hyacinth Way) (reference)

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Duces n' Trays: The Old Fashioned Way [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Tribal Features: The Way Ahead (reference)

• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• In Harm's Way [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• High Way for One (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Learn Spanish Your Way (reference)

• The New Way Things Work (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Little Tikes 3 Way Entertainer (reference)

• 900 MHZ 3 Way Monitor (reference)

• On My Way Position Right V Infant Car Seat - Plaid (reference)

• Olympia Industrial 12-052 2-1/2 In 3 Way Edging Clamp (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A laminar airflow unit is a protective covering for people with suppressed immune systems. In this germ-free environment the air flows out one way and the germs cannot re-enter the system. Shown are a nurse and a child inside the protective unit. The nurse is reading to the child. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A white female patient receives a lateral mammogram treatment. She is lying on her left side with the left breast compressed and she is holding her right breast out of the way so as to not block the x-ray. Note the older methods of the diagnostic procedure. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Septicemia involves the systemic spread of bacteria from a localized origin of infection throughout the body by way of the blood stream. Credit: CDC.

This patient developed streptococcal endocarditis after the bacteria had spread throughout his body by way of his blood stream, thereby, infecting the interior of his heart. Credit: CDC.

Gagarin on his way to Vostok Launch. Credit: NASA.

COBE's View of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope has snapped a view of a stellar demolition zone in our Milky Way Galaxy: ... Credit: NASA.

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together ... Credit: NASA.

Setting up a Raydist tower Most of the way up Party off of wire drag vessels WAINWRIGHT and HILGARD Photograph #6 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The way to Station Can Building party off of WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. (reference)

This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as Juvenal thought it of fighting; ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum. (Second Treatise of Government)

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. (reference)

This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible. (reference)

Where the risk had not attached, money paid by way of premium or otherwise shall be recoverable from the insurer. (reference)

Because you see the 46 millions in our island harassed about their food supply, of which they only grow one half, even in war-time, or because we have difficulty in restarting our industries and export trade after six years of passionate war effort, do not suppose that we shall not come through these dark years of privation as we have come through the glorious years of agony, or that half a century from now, you will not see 70 or 80 millions of Britons spread about the world and united in defense of our traditions, our way of life, and of the world causes which you and we espouse. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws. (reference)

The prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way, unless it demonstrates the use of procedural safeguards effective to secure the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A very friendly inquiry after Miss Fairfax, she hoped, might lead the way to a return of old feelings

We must feel our way.

The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window

Yet did the physician, in his dark way, creep frightfully near the secret

As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things

That was not the way to think of her.

Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again

The weary way hath made you melancholy

And the orchards lined the way and made an aisle

I determined therefore to direct my course this way, in order to my return to Europe

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If they heal that way, a fistula forms. (references)

Research on PIs is under way on many fronts. (references)

A frequency is another way of measuring sound. (references)

Business

E-commerce is still a long way off in Poland. (references)

Components make their way around China slowly. (references)

Radio promotion is also an effective way to reach farmers. (references)

Children

Singapore

Mental and physically disabilities are treated in the same way. (references)

Sweden

The law prohibits parents or other caretakers from abusing children mentally or physically in any way. (references)

Kenya

The system of free education in the early years of the country's independence has given way to a "cost-sharing" education system in which students pay both tuition and other costs. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

The Full Gospel Pentecostal churches regularly have been refused registration in this way. (references)

Mexico

He was investigating a local drug dealer and apparently was kidnaped on his way to the Matamoros airport. (references)

South Africa

Asmal apologized repeatedly for his comments, stated that he was in no way opposed to Christianity, and affirmed his commitment to religious freedom. (references)

Discrimination

Syria

Party or government connections can pave the way for entrance into better elementary and secondary schools, access to lucrative employment, and greater power within the Government, the military, and the security services. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

That process is now well under way. (references)

Bahrain

This aquifer stretches all the way to Riyadh. (references)

Human Rights

Portugal

An investigation was under way at year's end. (references)

Peru

At year's end, an investigation was under way in Puno. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The settler had lost his way and entered Area A in Jericho that evening. (references)

Indigenous People

Sri Lanka

The executive order granted the Veddas the freedom to protect their culture and to carry on their traditional way of life without hindrance. (references)

Sri Lanka

Although many Veddas continue to pursue a traditional way of life, visits by tourists have become an important source of income for the community. (references)

India

In the Andaman Islands in 1999, the local government implemented a policy of permitting development of the Jawara tribal area, which threatens the indigenous group's way of life. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Qadri and others had been on their way to Friday prayers in Karachi. (references)

Georgia

They tied the night watchmen and used a blowtorch to force their way into the room where all of the church's valuables were kept in a safe. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Bedouin living in unrecognized villages have no way to obtain building permits; the Government demolished at least two homes in unrecognized villages during the year. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

The modernization of Algerian customs, a key priority, is under way. (references)

AUSTRIA

Preparations are also under way to liberalize the natural gas market in 2002. (references)

Albania

Only a small percentage of the national budget finds its way to local governments. (references)

Political Rights

Bhutan

These elections are conducted in much the same way as National Assembly elections. (references)

Sri Lanka

In response to sharp criticism about the way that the 1999 vote was conducted, the President appointed a commission staffed by two retired judges to evaluate allegations of electoral fraud. (references)

East Timor

In January 1999, the Government of Indonesia announced its willingness to consider broad-based autonomy or independence for East Timor, paving the way for a U.N.-sponsored agreement concluded between Indonesia and Portugal in May of that year. (references)

Trade

Egypt

Information on the label cannot be erased, scratched or altered in any way. (references)

Mexico

It is expected to have a deep impact in the way that Mexican firms do business. (references)

South Africa

Letters of Credit (LC) are the customary way to finance imports into South Africa. (references)

Travel

Slovak Rep

Most companies are using email as a new way of communicating. (references)

Cape Verde

The fastest and the most common way to get to Cape Verde is by air. (references)

Austria

Showing understanding for the Austrian way of doing things will prove rewarding. (references)

Women

Fiji

Reliable estimates indicate that 10 percent of women have been abused in some way. (references)

Malaysia

Terrengganu's executive counselor in charge of women's and non-Muslim's affairs claimed that the dress code was designed to protect the image of Muslim women and to promote Islam as a way of life. (references)

Worker Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Protest is often the only way to compel the payment of salaries or wages. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The way

Expressions using "way": a long way ♦ a long way off ♦ a long way to hoe ♦ a nice way to talk! ♦ a short way off ♦ accident on the way to and from work ♦ across the way ♦ Air way ♦ all the way ♦ all the way around ♦ allow one to have his own way ♦ along the way ♦ any way ♦ any way you like ♦ apex of the sun's way ♦ Appian Way ♦ ask smb. the way ♦ ask the way ♦ back way ♦ battle one's way through the crowd ♦ be by way of doing smth. ♦ be in a bad way ♦ be in a fair way ♦ be in the family way ♦ be in the way ♦ be in the way of ♦ be in the way to ♦ be on the right way ♦ be on the way ♦ be out of the way ♦ be under way ♦ blast one's way through ♦ blunder one's way along ♦ bore one's way in ♦ both way ♦ Bridle way ♦ burrow it's way under the fence ♦ button all the way up ♦ by the same way ♦ by the way ♦ by this way ♦ by way ♦ by way of ♦ by way of a hint ♦ by way of consequence ♦ by way of example ♦ by way of exception ♦ by way of introduction ♦ by way of precaution ♦ by way of privilege ♦ by way of proof ♦ by way of relief ♦ call on the way ♦ carriage way ♦ chop one's way through ♦ clear a way ♦ cleave one's way through the crowd ♦ come a long way ♦ come in one's way ♦ companion way ♦ Covered way ♦ Covert way ♦ curvilinear guide way ♦ divided highways within one right of way ♦ do in an amateurish way ♦ do it another way ♦ dovetail way ♦ dovetailed way ♦ Dragon's Way ♦ dual carriage way ♦ eat its way ♦ edge one's way through a crowd ♦ either way ♦ elbow one's way ♦ elbow one's way through ♦ elbow one's way through the crowd ♦ every which way ♦ every wich way ♦ express way ♦ Federal Way ♦ feel ones way ♦ feel one's way ♦ fight one's way ♦ fight one's way through ♦ find a way ♦ find a way out ♦ find its way into ♦ find one's way ♦ find one's way about ♦ find one's way into ♦ find smb.'s way out ♦ Flaminian Way ♦ flat way ♦ fond one's way ♦ for a long way ♦ force one's way ♦ force one's way down ♦ force one's way forward ♦ force one's way into ♦ force one's way through ♦ force one's way to. Additional references.

Beginning with "way": way-and, Way-clive, way-finding, way-get, Way-going, Way-going crop, Way-goose, way-hey, way-in, way-laid, way-leave, way-leaves, way-marked, way-of-being, way-of-seeing, way-out, way-point, way-points, way-station, Way-wise, way-worn.

Ending with "way": alley-way, each-way, eight-way, five-way, mid-way, m-way, one-way, out-of-the-way, part-way, passage-way, three-way, through-way, two-way, Wood-way.

Containing "way": And-by-way-of-hieronymus, dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety, don't-stand-in-my-way-or-else, eight-way-scrolling, Four-way cock, Four-way stop, four-way switch, get-out-of-my-way-i-haven't-a-moment-to-spare, half-way house, multi-way branch, one-way communication, one-way fare, one-way function, one-way hash function, one-way light time, one-way road, one-way street, one-way ticket, one-way traffic, one-way-deal, oral-way-of-life, out-of-the-way corner, right-way-up-cups, star-shoots-his-way-out-of-the-ghetto, Straight-way valve, three-way calling, two-way communication, two-way hinge, two-way street, two-way trade, two-way-travel-time, when-you've-had-a-number-one-the-only-way-is-down.

Afrikaans

wyse (manner, mode), wys (indicate, manner, melody, mode, point, point out, sagacious, sage, show, tune, voice, vote, wise), pad (road, route), gewoonte (custom, habit), gebruik (custom, employ, habit, make, make use of, turn to account, use), baan (course, orbit, path, playground, race-course, road, route, running, running track, track, trajectory, width). (various references)

Albanian

mënyrë (cut, device, fashion, form, manner, mean, means, method, modality, mode, path, rate, sort, touch, wise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ناحية (township), ‏اسلوب (procedure, style), ‏اتجاه (wind), ‏السمت (azimuth), ‏طريق (approach, carriage way, course, lane, line, pass, passage, path, pathway, ride, right path, road, route, row, run, runway, rut, track, trail), ‏طريقة مميزة (habit, mannerism), ‏عادات (lore, manners, mores), ‏سبيل (avenue, course, path, pathway, track), ‏شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, categorize, comprise, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize), ‏حالة (case, circumstance, condition, conjuncture, drama, estate, event, feather, fettle, incident, job, manner, nick, occurrence, phase, picture, place, plight, pose, position, posture, rate, shape, situation, state, status, trim, weather, whack), طريق (method, road), ‏نطاق (ambit, area, belt, compass, extension, field, framework, range, sash, stretcher, width, zone), ‏نهج (approach, path, process, tactic), ‏مجاز (allegory, corridor, figure, image, imagery, metaphor, passage, path, track), ‏مسلك (passage, route, track), ‏محلة, ‏ممر (footpath, gangway, lane, passage, passageway, path, pathway, track), ‏فرصة (break, chance, holiday, occasion, opportunity, scope, show), ‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, work up to). (various references