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(en noun)

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):

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A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.

(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.

(slang) Marijuana.

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

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

(informal) A distance.

* 2007, Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416533249, page 41,

“We still have a ways to go with patterns.”

“You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.