Word Finder - ways

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(heading) To do with a place or places.

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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

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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.

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A state or condition

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When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.

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(heading) Personal interaction.

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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.

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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)

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Speed, progress, momentum.

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A degree, an amount, a sense.

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In a large way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.

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(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.

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Way to ruin the moment, guys.

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The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.

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The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.

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The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

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(usually preceded by a) A distance.

There are thousands of ways to be smart.

The Internet has allowed for the creation of thousands of new ways to give, both time and money.

Online, people are constantly thinking up new ways to share with others.

As each of us spent five full days a week together, we agreed to go our own ways on weekends, establishing an outside life.

You fulfill me in so many ways I never dreamed of, this isn't that big a deal.

Once the promise of this world comes to be, new ways will be created to measure even more data.

Alex is a lot like his father in some ways.

But you are alike in some ways.

You know Cade; you could make a profit off this ranch other ways than running cattle.

He was history, in more ways than one.

They've got all kinds of newfangled ways of digging up the past.

Donnie's entrance seemed to brighten Edith's morning as she clucked over him, cautioning him about the perils of his undertaking in a dozen different ways, all the while ignoring father Donald who'd fled from her bed the night before.

Two women couldn't room together for fifteen years and, in some ways, remain virtual strangers.

Gabriel will indoctrinate you to our ways, teach you to feed properly.

Jackson proceeded to pleasure her in ways she had never experienced, asking nothing of her.

She gave him his love of music and schooled him in all the proper ways a noble man should behave.

Better microscopes gave us more information, more ways to unlock the secrets of life.

He was such a wonderful person in so many ways.

The former of these ways is followed by the very skilful and intelligent blowers in Sweden, who, with the temperature and all other conditions well under control, and with their minds set on the quality rather than on the quantity of their product, can thus make steel of any desired carbon-content from o io to 1.25%.

The methods of cultivation and manufacture followed there differ in many ways from those of the other large producing countries, but the industry has been fairly successful throughout its history.

These are prepared by cutting down and burning the jungle, which is afterwards hoed, lined and staked in parallel rows running both ways.

Pascal solved the hitherto refractory problem of the general quadrature of the cycloid, and proposed and solved a variety of others relating to the centre of gravity of the curve and its segments, and to the volume and centre of gravity of solids of revolution generated in various ways by means of it.

The ditches may be filled in one or other of several different ways.

The latter is in many ways the most complete statement of the facts at present published.

The increase of trade and a system of taxation provided the governing body with funds, which were used to fortify the city and in other ways to make life and property more secure.

The Essenes, while clinging to what they held to be original Mosaism, yet conceived and practised their ancestral faith in ways which showed distinct traces of syncretism, or the operation of influences foreign to Judaism proper.

Heights have been calculated in various less direct ways, by observing for instance the angular altitude of the summit of an arc and the angular interval between its extremities, and then making some assumption such as that the portion visible to an observer may be treated as a circle whose centre lies over the so-called auroral pole.

The mean height calculated at Arctic stations, where careful observations have been made, in this or analogous ways, has varied from 58 km.

In these ways Maximilian proved himself a capable and energetic ruler, although his plans for making Austria into a kingdom, or an electorate, were abortive.

At the beginning of 1877 a secret understanding had been made between the two powers, by which Russia undertook not to annex any territory, and in other ways not to take steps which would be injurious to Austria.

In this, as in other ways, the Germans in Austria have been much influenced by the course of events in the German empire.

But Roman ascendancy nowhere crushed out Greek life where it already existed, and in some ways it strengthened it.

The war is instructive in many ways.

This way of speaking would imply that Agyrium had so far advanced in Greek ways as to run the usual course of a Greek commonwealth.

The new paper, though attractive in many ways, and full of force and fire, was too far ahead of public sentiment on moral questions to win a large support.

Many of them seem to have rejected a belief in immortality and in a personal God, and in many ways they resemble the Brethren of the Free Spirit in the 14th century.

Already before Alexander pan-hellenic feeling had in various ways overridden the internal divisions of the Greek race, but now, with the vast mingling of Greeks of all sorts in the newlyconquered lands, a generalized Greek culture in which the old local characteristics were merged, came to overspread the world.

Crocodiles are caught in various ways, - for instance, with two pointed sticks, which are fastened crosswise within the bait, an animal's entrails, to which is attached a rope.

A secondary road branched off through the Wadi Tumilat, whence the ways ran northwards to Syria and southwards to Sinai.

In the mass they were a body of patient laborers, tilling a rich soil, and hating all foreign lands and ways.

Later theories symbolized Re in many whc erent ways.

The aim of the artist-scribe was to arrange his variously aped characters into square groups, and this could be done in great measure by taking advantage of the different ways in which many words could be spelt.

Opposed to European ways, Abbas lived in great seclusion, and after a reign of less than six years he was murdered (July 1854) by two of his slaves.

Every child is bound to attend the parish school at least from the seventh to the thirteenth year, unless the parents can prove that it receives suitable instruction in other ways.

In particular the suppression of the monasteries benefited the crown in two ways.

We come now to what is in many ways the most interesting of Alfred's works, his translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, the most popular philosophical manual of the middle ages.

The churches are in full communion with one another, and act together in many ways; missionary jurisdictions and dioceses are mapped out by common arrangement, and even transferred if it seems advisable; e.g.

Little else has been recorded of their ways.

The king declared him loyal, and a statute was passed freeing him from any penalties which he might have incurred under the Statute of Provisors or in other ways.

Growth in length is effected in a variety of ways.