Main entry: agency, means, way
Definition: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved
Usage: a means of control; an example is the best agency of instruction; the true way to success
Main entry: way
Definition: a journey or passage
Usage: they are on the way
Main entry: path, way, way of life
Definition: a course of conduct
Usage: the path of virtue; we went our separate ways; our paths in life led us apart; genius usually follows a revolutionary path
Main entry: way
Definition: any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
Usage: he said he was looking for the way out
Main entry: way, style, manner, fashion, mode
Definition: how something is done or how it happens
Usage: her dignified manner; his rapid manner of talking; their nomadic mode of existence; in the characteristic New York style; a lonely way of life; in an abrasive fashion
Main entry: way
Definition: the property of distance in general
Usage: it's a long way to Moscow; he went a long ways
Main entry: way
Definition: doing as one pleases or chooses
Usage: if I had my way
Main entry: way
Definition: a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
Usage: they didn't have much in the way of clothing
Definition: a line leading to a place or point
Usage: he looked the other direction; didn't know the way home
Main entry: way
Definition: a portion of something divided into shares
Usage: they split the loot three ways
Main entry: elbow room, room, way
Definition: space for movement
Usage: room to pass; make way for; hardly enough elbow room to turn around
Main entry: way
Definition: the condition of things generally
Usage: that's the way it is; I felt the same way
Main entry: way, right smart
Definition: to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)
Usage: way over budget; way off base; the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on