different between intention vs way

English

Alternative forms

• entention (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French intention, entention, from Old French entencion, from Latin intentio, intentionem. Compare intent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?n??n/
• Hyphenation: in?ten?tion
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Homophone: intension

Noun

intention (countable and uncountable, plural intentions)

1. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
   • a. 1784, attributed to Samuel Johnson

     Hell is paved with good intentions.

   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
2. (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
   • , I.iii.3:

     cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].

3. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

   • it is attention : when the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study

4. (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
   • 1732, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments …, Prop. II, p.159:

     In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts; […].

5. (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
6. (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.
   • 2007, Carie Ann Braun, Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health, p.49:

     When healing occurs by primary intention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.

Synonyms

• (purpose behind a specific action): See also Thesaurus:intention

Derived terms

• counter-intention
• intentional
• secondary intention
• the road to hell is paved with good intentions
• well-intentioned

Related terms

• intend
• intent
• well-intended

Translations

Verb

intention (third-person singular simple present intentions, present participle intentioning, simple past and past participle intentioned)

1. Intend

Translations

References

• intention at OneLook Dictionary Search
• intention in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Finnish

Noun

intention

1. Genitive singular form of intentio.

French

Etymology

From Middle French entention, from Old French entencion, borrowed from Latin intenti?, intenti?nem. Respelled intention in Middle French to more closely match the Classical Latin form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.sj??/

Noun

intention f (plural intentions)

1. intention

Derived terms

Further reading

• “intention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

intention f (plural intentions)

1. Alternative form of entention

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: w?, IPA^(key): /we?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English we? (“way; path”), from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Doublet of voe.

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.
      • the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance

      • "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]
   2. A means to enter or leave a place.
   3. A roughly-defined geographical area.

2. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
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').

   2. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

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) Speed, progress, momentum.
   • 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.
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.
9. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
10. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.

Hyponyms

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:way

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

way

1. (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible

   Synonym: yes way

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 […] .

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.

Synonyms

• (much): far, much, loads
• (very): so, very, so much

Derived terms

• way too
• way too many
• way too much

Translations

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.

Related terms

• double-u

Anagrams

• Yaw, wya, yaw

Bobot

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

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.

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)?^[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 115

Lampung Api

Etymology

From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

way

1. water (clear liquid H?O)

Ojibwe

Particle

way

1. exclamation

References

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

Tz'utujil

Noun

way

1. tortilla

Synonyms

• away