way

ISO 639-3 language code for Wayana.

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.

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.

A means to enter or leave a place.

• We got into the cinema through the back way.

A roughly-defined geographical area.

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

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.

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.

A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.

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.

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.

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

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

Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

• My little sister always whines until she gets her way.

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.

Speed, progress, momentum.

A degree, an amount, a sense.

• In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.

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

• Way to ruin the moment, guys.

The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.

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

Yes; it is true; it is possible.

To travel.

Far.

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

Much, far, by a great degree.

• I'm a way better singer than Emma.
• I'm way too tired to do that.

Very.

• I'm way tired.
• String theory is way cool, except for the math.

Extreme, far

• Sitting in the way back of the bus

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

The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.