way

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Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Wayana.

Noun

1. To do with a place or places. 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.
   • We lied our way through the debriefing.
   • We got into the cinema through the back way.
   • If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
   • It's a long way from here.
   • Twenty miles surely is a long way to walk.
   • I was surprised when I managed to run the whole way.
2. 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.
   • We lied our way through the debriefing.
3. A means to enter or leave a place.
   • We got into the cinema through the back way.
4. A roughly-defined geographical area.
   • If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
5. Distance in general.
   • It's a long way from here.
   • Twenty miles surely is a long way to walk.
   • I was surprised when I managed to run the whole way.
6. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
   • He's finally seen the error of his ways.
   • 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.
7. A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
8. A state or condition.
   • He's in a bad way.
   • When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
9. Personal interaction. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
   • There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
   • My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
10. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
    • There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
11. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
    • My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
12. 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.
13. Speed, progress, momentum.
14. A degree, an amount, a sense.
    • In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
15. Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
    • Way to ruin the moment, guys.
16. The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
17. A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.
18. Where are you?, etc. Hey! way? I'm right outside the mall.

Interjection

1. Yes; it is true; it is possible.

Verb

1. To travel.

Adverb

1. Far.
   • I used to live way over there.
   • The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
   • He kicked the ball way up.
2. Much, far, by a great degree.
   • I'm a way better singer than Emma.
   • I'm way too tired to do that.
3. Very.
   • I'm way tired.
   • String theory is way cool, except for the math.

Adjective

1. Extreme, far
   • Sitting in the way back of the bus

Noun

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

Noun

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

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