Way

noun ways · waye · waie

1. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another. Do you know the way to the airport?  Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.
2. A means to enter or leave a place. We got into the cinema through the back way.
3. A roughly-defined geographical area. If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
4. Distance in general It's a long way from here.
5. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. He's finally seen the error of his ways.
6. usually A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
7. A state or condition He's in a bad way.
8. Possibility (usually in the phrases ‘any way’ and ‘no way’). There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct. My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
10. Germanic 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. 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)
11. uncountable Speed, progress, momentum. 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.
12. A degree, an amount, a sense. In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
13. US Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation. Way to ruin the moment, guys.
14. plural, plural only The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched. 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.
15. plural, usually A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.

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interjection waye · waie

1. slang Yes; it is true; it is possible. - We searched the vehicle. It was clean, so we did the body cavity searches. - No way. - Way!

verb ways · waying · wayed · waye · waie

1. obsolete To travel. on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge[…].

adverb 'way · ’way

1. informal, not comparable Far. I used to live way over there.
2. informal, not comparable Much, far, by a great degree. I'm a way better singer than Emma.
3. not comparable, slang Very. I'm way tired.

adjective 'way · ’way

1. attributive, informal, not comparable Extreme, far Sitting in the way back of the bus

noun ways · 'way · ’way

1. obsolete A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.

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noun ways

1. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

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proper noun

1. Christianity. 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.
2. Chinese Synonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.
3. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of South Downs Way.South Downs Way We're walking along the Way now.

proper noun

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.
3. A hamlet in Minster parish, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3265).