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way
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)
- (heading) To do with a place or places.
- 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]
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- A state or condition
- When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
- (heading) Personal interaction.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- (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)
- (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.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- A degree, an amount, a sense.
- (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.
- (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
- (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
- (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)
- (obsolete) To travel.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
Etymology 2
Apheresis of away.
Alternative forms
- 'way, ’way (dated)
Adverb
way (not comparable)
- (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.
- (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?
- (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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- water (clear liquid H?O)
Ojibwe
Particle
way
- exclamation
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc
Tz'utujil
Noun
way
- tortilla
Synonyms
- away
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series
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin seri?s, from serere (“to join together, bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??.?i?z/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s??iz/, /?si?iz/
- Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres
Noun
series (plural series)
- A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
- Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence
- (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals
- Synonyms: show, program
- (Discuss(+) this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums of a given sequence ai.
- (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
- (zoology) An unranked taxon.
- (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
- (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
- (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
Usage notes
- (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.
Synonyms
- serie (obsolete)
Derived terms
- in series
- (media, television) TV series
- (electrical) series-wound
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (shir?zu)
Translations
Adjective
series (not comparable)
- (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.
- Antonym: parallel
Further reading
- series in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- series in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- series at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- reises, ressie, seiser
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /s???i.?s/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /se??i.es/
Verb
series
- second-person singular conditional form of ser
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
series
- Plural form of serie
Interlingua
Noun
series
- plural of serie
Latin
Etymology
From ser? (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?se.ri.e?s/, [?s???ie?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?se.ri.es/, [?s???i?s]
Noun
seri?s f (genitive seri??); fifth declension
- a row
- a succession
- a series
- a chain
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Verb
series
- second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of seriar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of seriar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?jes/, [?se.?jes]
Etymology 1
Noun
series
- plural of serie
Etymology 2
Verb
series
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of seriar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of seriar.
Swedish
Noun
series
- indefinite genitive singular of serie
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