different between elbowroom vs leeway

English

Etymology

From elbow +? room.

Noun

elbowroom (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of elbow room

English

Etymology

lee (“side away from the wind”) +? way

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?li??we?]
• Rhymes: -i?we?

Noun

leeway (countable and uncountable, plural leeways)

1. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.

   Synonyms: freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, wiggle room, elbowroom

   • 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ?ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,^[1]

     Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
3. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

Related terms

• lee
• leeward

Translations

References

• “leeway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.