way

way or go one's way [wā]

n.

[ME < OE weg, akin to Ger < IE base * weĝh-, to go > L vehere, to carry, ride, Gr ochos, wagon]

1. a means of passing from one place to another, as a road, highway, street or path [the Appian Way]

2. room or space for passing; free area; an opening, as in a crowd or traffic [clear a way for the ambulance]

3. a route or course that is or may be used to go from one place to another: often used in combination [highway, railway, one-way street]

4. a specified route or direction [on the way to town]

5. a path in life; course or habits of life or conduct [to fall into evil ways]

6.

a) a course of action; method or manner of doing something [do it this way]

b) a means to an end; method [a way to cut costs]

7. a usual or customary manner of living, acting, or being [the way of the world]

8. a characteristic manner of acting or doing [to learn the ways of other people]

9. manner or style [to have a pleasant way]

10. distance [a long way off]

11. direction of movement or action [go this way; look this way]

12. respect; point; particular; feature [to be right in some ways]

13. what one desires; wish; will [to have or get one's own way]

14. range or scope, as of experience [a method that never came in his way]

15. relationship as to those taking part: used in hyphenated compounds [a four-way conversation]

16. Informal a (specified) state or condition [to be in a bad way]

17. Informal a district; locality; area [out our way]

18. Law Now Rare RIGHT OF WAY (sense 2)

19. Mech. a surface or slide on which the carriage of a lathe, etc. moves along its bed

20. Naut. a ship's movement or momentum through water

21. [pl.] Shipbuilding a timber framework on which a ship is built and along which it slides in launching

adv.

Informal away; far; to a considerable extent or at some distance [way behind]

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by the way

1. incidentally

2. on or beside the way

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by way of

1. passing through; through; via

2. as a way, method, mode, or means of

3. Chiefly Brit. in the condition or position of [by way of being a fine pianist]

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come someone's way

1. to come within someone's scope or range; come to someone

2. Informal to turn out successfully for someone: also go someone's way

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give way

1. to withdraw; yield

2. to break down; collapse

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give way to

1. to step aside for; yield to

2. to give free expression to [to give way to tears]

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☆ go all the way

1. Informal to proceed or agree completely

2. Slang to engage in sexual intercourse

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go out of the way or go out of one's way

to inconvenience oneself; do something that one would not ordinarily do, or that requires extra or deliberate effort or trouble

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in the way

in such a position or of such a nature as to obstruct, hinder, impede, or prevent

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lead the way

to be a guide or example

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make one's way

1. to advance or proceed

2. to advance in life or succeed, as by one's own efforts

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make way

1. to make room; clear a passage

2. to make progress

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on the way out

1. becoming unfashionable, obsolescent, etc.

2. dying

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out of the way

1. in a position so as not to hinder or interfere

2. disposed of

3. not on the right or usual route or course

4.

a) improper; wrong; amiss

b) unusual; uncommon

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parting of the ways

an ending of a relationship as because of a disagreement

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see one's way clear or see one's way

1. to be willing (to do something)

2. to find it convenient or possible: Also see one's way

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take one's way

Old Poet. to go on a journey; travel

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the way

according to the way that; as [with things the way they are]

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under way

1. moving; advancing; making progress

2. see UNDERWAY Naut.