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.

    Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
    mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
    ché la diritta via era smarrita.

     Dante, Inferno

Path

• Which way should we go to get back to the hotel?
• 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!

Derived words

• away: particule qui décrit un éloignement
• underway: en cours
• layaway: achat à livraison différée, achat par anticipation
• breakaway: échappée, séparatiste
• runaway (n. / adj.): fugueu(r)(se), galopant

Expressions / idioms

• "She tapped Mrs. Delacroix on the arm as a farewell and began to make her way through the crowd." (Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery")