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Ways

noun
1.
Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.  Synonyms: shipway, slipway.


Way

noun
1.
How something is done or how it happens.  Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, style.  "His rapid manner of talking" , "Their nomadic mode of existence" , "In the characteristic New York style" , "A lonely way of life" , "In an abrasive fashion"
2.
How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.  Synonyms: agency, means.  "An example is the best agency of instruction" , "The true way to success"
3.
A line leading to a place or point.  Synonym: direction.  "Didn't know the way home"
4.
The condition of things generally.  "I felt the same way"
5.
A course of conduct.  Synonyms: path, way of life.  "We went our separate ways" , "Our paths in life led us apart" , "Genius usually follows a revolutionary path"
6.
Any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another.
7.
A journey or passage.
8.
Space for movement.  Synonyms: elbow room, room.  "Make way for" , "Hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
9.
The property of distance in general.  "He went a long ways"
10.
Doing as one pleases or chooses.
11.
A general category of things; used in the expression 'in the way of'.
12.
A portion of something divided into shares.



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"Ways" Quotes from Famous Books



... reconciled to our ways of living sooner than you imagine; and by the time that your wound is healed you will be longing for exercise. But we will give you plenty ...
— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins
... to such a fabulous story. Her father was a weak-minded man, and her mother, a woman of uncommon energy, had him completely under her thumb. Of his uncles, one had gone melancholy mad; another distinguished himself in mathematics, but he was so eccentric that his curious ways were retailed as amusing anecdotes in Lancia; and another retired to the country, married a peasant, and killed himself with drinking. She had only one remaining brother, the present Baron de los Oscos. He was an original and an eccentric creature. At the commencement of the civil war he put ...
— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds
... butchering game meat, wood and plainscraft, the knowledge of how properly to care for firearms in all sorts of circumstances, and a half hundred other like minutiae. Memba Sasa knew these things, and he performed them with the artist's love for details; and his keen eyes were always spying for new ways. ...
— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White
... There are many ways in which the apostle's great saying that 'we are saved by hope' approves itself as true. Whatever leads us to grasp the future rather than the present, even if it is but an earthly future, and to live by hope rather than by fruition, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren
... habits; the last lady's-maid was sent away in disgrace. Her ladyship wouldn't believe she hadn't been forward when she saw things she didn't like, though every one in the hall knew the girl hated his bold ways with her, and her mother nearly broke her heart. He's begun with Rose, and it just drives me mad, ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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