way
/weɪ/ sustantivo A1En español: camino, vía, medios, manera
- 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.· We lied our way through the debriefing.
- A means to enter or leave a place. · We got into the cinema through the back way.
- A roughly-defined geographical area. · If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
- Distance in general · It's a long way from here.· Twenty miles surely is a long way to walk.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. · He's finally seen the error of his ways.· 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.
- A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.
- A state or condition · He's in a bad way.· When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases ‘any way’ and ‘no way’). · There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
Plural ways
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Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I never could perceive anything extraordinary in them.
Upon this, the old man, vexed and ashamed, made the best of his way home again, convinced that by endeavoring to please everybody he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass in the bargain.
A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one.
“Dantès,” said the shipowner, turning towards the young man, “come this way!”
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