way
IPA: wˈeɪ
noun
- (heading) To do with a place or places.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- (with 'the', usually with modifier) A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
- A state or condition
- (heading) Personal interaction.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
- (Germanic paganism) 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.
- (nautical, uncountable) Speed, progress, momentum.
- A degree, an amount, a sense.
- (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
- (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
- (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
- The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
- (Christianity, with the definite article) Christianity.
- (Chinese philosophy, with the definite article) Synonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.
- A surname.
- Way, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.
- (Sussex, with the definite article) Clipping of South Downs Way.
verb
- (obsolete) To travel.
adjective
- (informal, attributive) Extreme, far
adverb
- (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
- (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
- (informal) Far.
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Examples of "way" in Sentences
- I did not mean that way.
- I didn't mean it in a supercilious way.
- By the way, does it mean simpleton in Italian
- Grope means to fondle someone in a sexual way.
- It is the way the empirical scientific method works.
- I'd like to restart the discussion in a methodical way.
- The way the language is described is not exactly methodical.
- There is no way of telling the present with the means of the past.
- The method is an essential hedonistic aspect of the aesthetic way of life.
- By the way, pharmacology means the effect of the antibiotic on the pathogen.
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