Aroad, adirection, a (physical or conceptual)path from one place to another.
Do you know theway to the airport?Come thisway and I'll show you a shortcut.It's a longway from here.
Twen miles is a longway to walk.
1667,John Milton, “Book II”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→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 itsway up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
I was on myway 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.
"It's a longway to Tipperary, / it's a longway 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]
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 theirway through this blizzard of risks.
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 narrowway which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
A roughly-defined geographical area.
If you're ever 'round thisway, come over and visit me.
“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had herway, 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 theway she laughed, cackling like a hen, theway 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.
[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was theway 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.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic theway real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
(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.
2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlantaway’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, inThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
To walk theWay 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)
Immediately afterwards, a quick and eager short dark man came into the room with so muchway upon him that he was within a foot of Clennam before he could stop.
1977,Richard O'Kane,Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books, published2003, page343:
Ten minutes into the runTang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lostway.
A degree, an amount, a sense.
In a significantway, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
That concertina was a wonder in itsway. 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.
(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.
Way to ruin the moment, guys.
2001, Joshua Nedelman,The Garden of Eastern, page36:
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.
2009, Linda Winfree,Fall in Me, page165:
Oh,way to start a rumor, Hope. Angel glared the silent statement at her sister.
2012, Nancy Manther,A Charmed Life:
"Oh,way to care about howI feel." His voice took on an exaggerated “Valley Girl” tone.
(plural only) Thetimbers ofshipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat islaunched.
1912, Fredrick A. Talbot,Steamship Conquest of the World[2], page36:
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 theways up to that time.
(usually plural) A guiding surface on thebed of aplaner,lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.
on a time as they togetherway'd, / He made him open chalenge[…].
1919,Gotō Shinpei, "Japanese Statesman on Christian Missions",The Missionary Review,Volume 42, p. 660
Laötze says, “The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name. The Way that can bewayed, is not the Eternal Way.” Infinite wisdom is beyond the human power to understand.
2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, inRail, page81:
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,L. William Zahner, “Corrosion Characteristics”, inAluminum Surfaces: a Guide to Alloys, Finishes, Fabrication and Maintenance in Architecture and Art, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,→OCLC, page287:
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 slowsway down.
2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres,Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts,page16:
With all theway 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?
E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “way”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004),Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan,→ISBN,page37
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015),L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[6], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999),Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;41)[7] (in Spanish),Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C.,→ISBN, page115
