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way

noun
/weɪ//weɪ/UK/weː/CA

Etymology

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese, Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”).

  1. derived from *weǵʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *wegaz✻
  3. inherited from *weg✻
  4. inherited from weġ
  5. inherited from way

Definitions

  1. To do with a place or places.

    • 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 surely is a long way to walk.
    • We lied our way through the debriefing.

  2. A method or manner of doing something

    A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

    • 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.”

  3. A state or condition

    • When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
  4. ›+ 21 more definitions

    1. Personal interaction.

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

    2. A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or…

      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)

    3. 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.
      • Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.

    4. A degree, an amount, a sense.

      • 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.

    5. Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic…

      Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.

      • 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.

    6. The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large…

      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.

    7. A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage…

      A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.

    8. Yes

      Yes; it is true; it is possible.

      • - We searched the vehicle. It was clean, so we did the body cavity searches. - No way. - Way!
      • We repeated this ritual of “no way - way, no way - way” over the years.

    9. To travel.

      • on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge[…].
      • Laötze says, “The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name. The Way that can be wayed, is not the Eternal Way.” Infinite wisdom is beyond the human power to understand.

    10. Far.

      • I used to live way over there.
      • The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
      • He kicked the ball way up.

    11. Much, far, by a great degree.

      • I'm a way better singer than Emma.
      • I'm way too tired to do that.
      • It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.

    12. Very.

      • I'm way tired.
      • String theory is way cool, except for the math.
      • With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?

    13. Extreme, far

      • Sitting in the way back of the bus
      • some day in the way future me and @HowdyDuda are gonna have to come for a visit…
      • This will be a funny one with Snow’s 2 1st rounders going to be at the way bottom while 2 of his mid round picks will be towards the very top.

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

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

    16. Christianity.

    17. Synonym of Tao

      Synonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.

    18. Clipping of South Downs Way.

      • We're walking along the Way now.

    19. A surname.

    20. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.

    21. A hamlet in Minster parish, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3265).

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Derived

3-way, a bob each way, accessway, across the way, Aemilian Way, airway, aisleway, a little goes a long way, a little of something goes a long way, alleyway, all the way, all the way to Egery and back, all the way to Sunday, all-way stop, along the way, alway, American way, any old kind of way, anyway, any way, any way one cuts it, any way one slices it, any which way, arborway, archway, around the way, a straw shows which way the wind blows, backway, barrow-way, barway, beltway, be on one's merry way, beway, bikeway, bilgeway, Blessing Way, blueway, branchway, breezeway, bridleway · +524 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for way. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA