way

wáy (canonical masculine)
wáy (absolutive)
wáyi (predicative)
wáy (subjective)
waytí (genitive)
wáyil (l-case)
wáyik (k-case)
wáyit (t-case)
wáyih (h-case)


way

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(dialectal, Metro Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.


way

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.

The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance

1688 November 15 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 5 November 1688]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:

Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]

"Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]

Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.

2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

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.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

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

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

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

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.”

1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

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.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

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.

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

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

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

My little sister always whines until she gets her way.

Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

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)

(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.

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.

1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.

1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books, published 2003, page 343:

(nautical, uncountable) Speed, progress, momentum.

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.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

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.

2001, Joshua Nedelman, The Garden of Eastern, page 36:

Oh, way to start a rumor, Hope. Angel glared the silent statement at her sister.

2009, Linda Winfree, Fall in Me, page 165:

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

(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.

As the head of an interjectory clause; followed by an infinitive starting with “to”; As the head of an interjectory clause; followed by an infinitive starting with “to”

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.

1912, Fredrick A. Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World, page 36:

(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.

ways (plural)
waye (alternative)
waie (alternative)

don't let the door hit you on the way out

driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

have one's head screwed on the right way

his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top

someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

the real treasure is the friends we made along the way

there's more than one way to cook an egg

there's more than one way to crack an egg

there's more than one way to peel an orange

the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

usko

paganism: dedication to a specific deity or craft

ramppi

timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water

johde

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.


way

- 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.

2011, William Schwenn, Dogs of Meadowbrook:

(slang, only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible


way

on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge[…].

1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

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.

1919, Gotō Shinpei, "Japanese Statesman on Christian Missions", The Missionary Review, Volume 42, p. 660

en-verb

way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)

ways (present singular third-person)
waying (participle present)
wayed (participle past)
wayed (past)
waye (alternative)
waie (alternative)


way

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.

2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:

The initial exposure of aluminum, regardless of alloy, will form a thin oxide film on the surface the second it is exposed. This film continues to grow and, after a few days of exposure, the growth slows way down.

2020, L. William Zahner, “Corrosion Characteristics”, in Aluminum Surfaces: a Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication and Maintenance in Architecture and Art, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:

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.

2006, Keyboard, volume 32, numbers 1-6, page 132:

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

2023 April 18 (last accessed), “Top differences between human and animal skin”, in Genoskin:

(informal, with comparative or with too + adjective) Much, far, by a great degree.

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?

2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16:


way

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.


way

(glassblowing, obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.

ways (plural)
'way (alternative)
’way (alternative)


way

The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.


way

From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.


way

Way, yay, wewiib enda-gizhigaawan iniw ininaatigoon.

Goodness gracious, hurry, the maples are running just fast.


way

the name of the Latin-script letter Y/y, in the Filipino alphabet

Borrowed from English wye, the English name of the letter Y/y.


way

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wayana.