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ALL meanings of way

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  • noun way a route or course that is or may be used to go from one place to another 0
  • noun way a specified route or direction 0
  • noun way a path in life; course or habits of life or conduct 0
  • noun way a course of action; method or manner of doing something 0
  • noun way a means to an end; method 0
  • noun way a usual or customary manner of living, acting, or being 0
  • noun way a characteristic manner of acting or doing 0
  • noun way manner or style 0
  • noun way distance 0
  • noun way direction of movement or action 0
  • noun way respect; point; particular; feature 0
  • noun way what one desires; wish; will 0
  • noun way range or scope, as of experience 0
  • noun way relationship as to those taking part 0
  • noun way a (specified) state or condition 0
  • noun way a district; locality; area 0
  • noun way right of way (sense 2) 0
  • noun way a surface or slide on which the carriage of a lathe, etc. moves along its bed 0
  • noun way a ship's movement or momentum through water 0
  • noun way a timber framework on which a ship is built and along which it slides in launching 0
  • adverb way away; far; to a considerable extent or at some distance 0
  • phrase way If you pay your way, you have or earn enough money to pay for what you need, without needing other people to give or lend you money. 0
  • countable noun way If you refer to a way of doing something, you are referring to how you can do it, for example the action you can take or the method you can use to achieve it. 0
  • countable noun way If you talk about the way someone does something, you are talking about the qualities their action has. 0
  • countable noun way If a general statement or description is true in a particular way, this is the form of it that is true in a particular case. 0
  • countable noun way You use way in expressions such as in some ways, in many ways, and in every way to indicate the degree or extent to which a statement is true. 0
  • noun plural way The ways of a particular person or group of people are their customs or their usual behaviour. 0
  • singular noun way If you refer to someone's way, you are referring to their usual or preferred type of behaviour. 0
  • countable noun way You use way to refer to one particular opinion or interpretation of something, when others are possible. 0
  • countable noun way You use way when mentioning one of a number of possible, alternative results or decisions. 0
  • singular noun way The way you feel about something is your attitude to it or your opinion about it. 0
  • singular noun way If you mention the way that something happens, you are mentioning the fact that it happens. 0
  • singular noun way You use way in expressions such as push your way, work your way, or eat your way, followed by a prepositional phrase or adverb, in order to indicate movement, progress, or force as well as the action described by the verb. 0
  • countable noun way The way somewhere consists of the different places that you go through or the route that you take in order to get there. 0
  • singular noun way If you go or look a particular way, you go or look in that direction. 0
  • singular noun way You can refer to the direction you are travelling in as your way. 0
  • singular noun way If you lose your way, you take a wrong or unfamiliar route, so that you do not know how to get to the place that you want to go to. If you find your way, you manage to get to the place that you want to go to. 0
  • countable noun way You talk about people going their different ways in order to say that their lives develop differently and they have less contact with each other. 0
  • singular noun way If something comes your way, you get it or receive it. 0
  • singular noun way If someone or something is in the way, they prevent you from moving forward or seeing clearly. 0
  • noun way Way is used in the names of some roads, and also in the names of some long paths for walkers in the countryside. 0
  • uncountable noun way You can use way to refer to the area near where someone lives or near a specified place. 0
  • singular noun way You use way in expressions such as the right way up and the other way around to refer to one of two or more possible positions or arrangements that something can have. 0
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