way

noun

1. 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. It's a long way from here.

   Twenty miles surely is a long way to walk.

   We lied our way through the debriefing.

   I was surprised when I managed to run the whole way.

2. 2

   To do with a place or places. A means to enter or leave a place.

   We got into the cinema through the back way.

   Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

3. 3

   To do with a place or places. A roughly-defined geographical area.

   If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.

4. 4

   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.

   “[…] 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.”

   She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

5. 5

   A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.

   [object Object]

6. 6

   A state or condition

   When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.

7. 7

   Personal interaction. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

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

8. 8

   Personal interaction. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

   My little sister always whines until she gets her way.

9. 9

   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)

10. 10

    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.

11. 11

    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.

12. 12

    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.

    "Oh, way to care about how I feel." His voice took on an exaggerated “Valley Girl” tone.

13. 13

    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.

14. 14

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

interjection

1. 1

   slangYes; 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.

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo 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.

adverb

1. 1

   informalFar.

   I used to live way over there.

   The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.

   He kicked the ball way up.

   A number of Dundee businessmen commuted across the bridge from their homes in Wormit, and some became concerned at the speeds that trains were crossing the bridge. Ex-Dundee Provost William Robertson timed one train at 43mph, way in excess of the 25mph speed limit.

2. 2

   informalMuch, 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.

   Porcine dermal collagen is similar to human dermal collagen biochemically. In mouse skin, the dermis is once again way thinner than in humans.

3. 3

   slangVery.

   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?

adjective

1. 1

   informalExtreme, 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.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.

noun

1. 1

   The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Forms

plural

ways

past tense

wayed

past participle

wayed

present participle

waying

third person singular

ways