"leeway" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: [ˈliːˌweɪ] Audio: en-us-leeway.ogg [US] Forms: leeways [plural]
Rhymes: -iːweɪ Etymology: lee (“side away from the wind”) + way Etymology templates: {{compound|en|lee|way|t1=side away from the wind}} lee (“side away from the wind”) + way Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} leeway (countable and uncountable, plural leeways)
  1. The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction): afdrift [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), afdrijving [feminine] (Dutch), sorto (Finnish), dérive (French), Abdrift [feminine] (German), טְרִידַת רוּחַ (tridat ruakh) [feminine] (Hebrew), scarroccio [masculine] (Italian), deriva [feminine] (Italian), 風圧量 (fūatsuryō) (alt: ふうあつりょう) [aviation, aeronautics, aerospace, engineering, business, physical-sciences, natural-sciences] (Japanese), 偏流量 (henryūryō) (english: marine) (alt: へんりゅうりょう) (Japanese), deriva [feminine] (Portuguese), дрейф (drejf) [masculine] (Russian), zanošenje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), deriva [feminine] (Spanish), avdrift (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-leeway-en-noun-UfJyNdS~ Disambiguation of 'drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction': 95 1 4
  2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, wiggle room, elbowroom Translations (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility): 余地 (yúdì) (Chinese Mandarin), speelruimte [feminine] (Dutch), speling [feminine] (Dutch), pelivara (Finnish), liikkumavara (Finnish), latitude [feminine] (French), marge [feminine] (French), Spielraum [masculine] (German), Freiraum [masculine] (German), kelonggaran (Indonesian), keleluasaan (Indonesian), saoirse [feminine] (Irish), solúbthacht [feminine] (Irish), margine di azione (Italian), 余地 (yochi) (alt: よち) (Japanese), 余裕 (yoyū) (alt: よゆう) (Japanese), slingringsmonn [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), margem (Portuguese), относи́тельная свобо́да де́йствий (otnosítelʹnaja svobóda déjstvij) [feminine] (Russian), manevarski prostor [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), sloboda kretanja [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), voľnosť [feminine] (Slovak), tolerancia [feminine] (Slovak), rezerva [feminine] (Slovak), libertad [feminine] (Spanish), espacio [masculine] (Spanish), margen [masculine] (Spanish), tolerancia [feminine] (Spanish), utrymme [neuter] (Swedish), spelrum [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-leeway-en-noun-RE-VCOLb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 52 37 Disambiguation of 'degree or amount of freedom or flexibility': 1 97 2
  3. (British) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway. Tags: British, countable, uncountable Translations (adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process): Versäumte [neuter] (German), Rückstand [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-leeway-en-noun-3TpDxDH6 Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process': 6 4 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: lee, leeward

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          "text": "2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, →ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,\nWithin an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]"
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        {
          "ref": "2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61",
          "text": "\"There's an hourly service to Nunthorpe and by the time you add in the Whitby trains as well there is hardly any leeway on the single line between Middlesbrough and Nunthorpe so it would involve quite significant infrastructure on the existing railway.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "freedom",
          "freedom"
        ],
        [
          "flexibility",
          "flexibility"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "freedom"
        },
        {
          "word": "flexibility"
        },
        {
          "word": "latitude"
        },
        {
          "word": "margin"
        },
        {
          "word": "wiggle room"
        },
        {
          "word": "elbowroom"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 209",
          "text": "[...] there was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discrepancy",
          "discrepancy"
        ],
        [
          "variation",
          "variation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈliːˌweɪ]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːweɪ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-leeway.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-us-leeway.ogg/En-us-leeway.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-us-leeway.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "afdrift"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "afdrijving"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "word": "sorto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "word": "dérive"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Abdrift"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tridat ruakh",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "טְרִידַת רוּחַ"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scarroccio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deriva"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ふうあつりょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fūatsuryō",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "topics": [
        "aviation",
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "engineering",
        "business",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "風圧量"
    },
    {
      "alt": "へんりゅうりょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "marine",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "henryūryō",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "word": "偏流量"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deriva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "drejf",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дрейф"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zanošenje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deriva"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction",
      "word": "avdrift"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yúdì",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "余地"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speelruimte"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speling"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "pelivara"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "liikkumavara"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "latitude"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "marge"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spielraum"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Freiraum"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "kelonggaran"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "keleluasaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "saoirse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "solúbthacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "margine di azione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "よち",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yochi",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "余地"
    },
    {
      "alt": "よゆう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yoyū",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "余裕"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "slingringsmonn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "word": "margem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otnosítelʹnaja svobóda déjstvij",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "относи́тельная свобо́да де́йствий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "manevarski prostor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sloboda kretanja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "voľnosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tolerancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rezerva"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "libertad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "espacio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "margen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tolerancia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "utrymme"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "degree or amount of freedom or flexibility",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "spelrum"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Versäumte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rückstand"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leeway"
}

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