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单词 way
释义

way

See also: Way, wɑy, and 'way

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: wā, IPA(key): /weɪ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

  • waye, waie (both obsolete)

Noun

way (plural ways)

  1. (heading) To do with a place or places.
    1. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
      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.
      • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
        The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
      • 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, […], volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, OCLC 976971842:
        the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance
      • 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 222716698:
        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.
      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
        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.
      • "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]
      • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
        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.
    2. A means to enter or leave a place.
      We got into the cinema through the back way.
      • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess‎:
        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.
    3. A roughly-defined geographical area.
      If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
  2. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
    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.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
      “[…] 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.”
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      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.
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      […] 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.
    • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
      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.
  3. A state or condition
    When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
  4. (heading) Personal interaction.
    1. Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
      There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
    2. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
      My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
  5. (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.
    • 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)
  6. (nautical, uncountable) Speed, progress, momentum.
    • 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, OCLC 83401042:
      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.
    • 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
      Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.
  7. A degree, an amount, a sense.
    In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
  8. (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, page 36:
      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, page 165:
      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 how I feel." His voice took on an exaggerated “Valley Girl” tone.
  9. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
    • 1912, Fredrick A. Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World‎, page 36:
      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.
  10. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:way
Hyponyms
  • areaway
  • hallway
  • taxiway
Derived terms
  • all-way stop
  • any way one slices it
  • barrow-way
  • beway
  • busway
  • by the way
  • by way of
  • change one's ways
  • come one's way
  • crawlerway
  • cry all the way to the bank
  • dragway
  • either way
  • every which way
  • expressway
  • Five Ways
  • folkway
  • Fosse Way
  • four-way stop
  • freeway
  • give way
  • go all the way
  • go out of one's way
  • go the way of the dodo
  • have a way with
  • have it both ways
  • have one's way
  • have one's wicked way
  • highway
  • in a way
  • in the way
  • in the way of
  • in the worst way
  • know one's way around
  • laugh all the way to the bank
  • lose one's way
  • Milky Way
  • misway
  • motorway
  • no way
  • no way to treat a lady
  • one-way
  • one way or another
  • on the way
  • parkway
  • pathway
  • pave the way
  • pay one's way
  • railway
  • right of way
  • rub someone the wrong way
  • runway
  • rutway
  • see one's way clear to
  • slipway
  • speedway
  • subway
  • take the wrong way
  • there are many ways to skin a cat, there's more than one way to skin a cat
  • the way things are
  • the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
  • three-way
  • trackway
  • tramway
  • two-way
  • wagonway
  • walkway
  • waybill
  • wayfinding
  • way in
  • wayleave, way leave
  • way of all flesh
  • way off
  • way of life
  • Way of the Cross
  • way of the world, ways of the world
  • way out
  • way to go
  • where there is a will there is a way
  • which way the wind is blowing
Translations

Interjection

way

  1. (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible
    Synonym: yes way
    • 2011, William Schwenn, Dogs of Meadowbrook:
      We repeated this ritual of “no way - way, no way - way” over the years.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To travel.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
      on a time as they together way'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 be wayed, is not the Eternal Way.” Infinite wisdom is beyond the human power to understand.

Etymology 2

Apheresis of away.

Alternative forms

  • 'way, ’way (dated)

Adverb

way (not comparable)

  1. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
    I'm way too tired to do that.
    I'm a way better singer than Emma.
    • 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,
      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.
  2. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
    I'm way tired.
    String theory is way cool, except for the math.
    • 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,
      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?
  3. (informal) Far.
    I used to live way over there.
    The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
    • 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:
      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.
Synonyms
  • (much): far, much, loads
  • (very): so, very, so much
Derived terms
  • way too
  • way too many
  • way too much
Translations
much — see much
very — see very
far — see far

Etymology 3

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

Noun

way (plural ways)

  1. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
  • double-u

Anagrams

  • Yaw, wya, yaw

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwʌj/
  • Hyphenation: way

Verb

wáy

  1. affirmative imperative singular of wée

Adverb

wáy

  1. (+ negative) never

Noun

wáy m 

  1. time, instance

Declension

Declension of wáy
absolutivewáy
predicativewáyi
subjectivewáy
genitivewaytí
Postpositioned forms
l-casewáyil
k-casewáyik
t-casewáyit
h-casewáyih

Synonyms

  • (time, instance): wák

Derived terms

  • a wáy

References

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “way”, in An 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, page 37
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Bobot

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Noun

way

  1. water

References

  • "Bobot" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Cebuano

Cebuano numbers (edit)
00[a], [b]
01  → 10  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: waláy, walâ
    Spanish cardinal: nulo, sero
    Ordinal: ikasero
    Adverbial: makasero

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaj/, [ˈwaɪ̯]

Adjective

way

  1. (dialectal, Urban Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Numeral

way

  1. (dialectal, Urban Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Pronoun

way

  1. (dialectal, Urban Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Derived terms

  • way sapayan

Verb

way

  1. (dialectal, Urban Cebu) Pronunciation spelling of walay.

Highland Popoluca

Noun

way

  1. hair

References

  • Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 115

Lampung Api

way

Etymology

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

Noun

way

  1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

Ojibwe

Particle

way

  1. exclamation
    Way, yay, wewiib enda-gizhigaawan iniw ininaatigoon.
    Goodness gracious, hurry, the maples are running just fast.

References

  • The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc

Tz'utujil

Noun

way

  1. tortilla

Synonyms

  • away
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