Difference between revisions of "Way"

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Chicago skyway. Library of Congress photo

When I had journeyed half of our life's way
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
     Dante,Inferno

Path

• I got some bread on the way back home.
• I'm on my way.
  • highway, motorway, tollway,
  • skyway, freeway, etc.

Method

• That's not the way I do it. cf. That's not how I do it.
• What's the best way to keep bugs from eating your tomatoes?

Manner

• That's no way to speak to your (mother) / (father) / (boss) / (employees)!
• The way (that) she talks, you would think (that) she was the boss.
• That's just the way (that) things have always been done.

Degree Modifier

Milky Way

(Here way is a very informal equivalent of much or far...)

• That's way too much work.
• That's way too big.

No way!

• -- No way! C'est pas vrai!
  -- Way. Si, si.

No way! also means pas question!