Respects vs Ways - What's the difference?
respects | ways |
regards or respect expressed for a deceased person, usually at the same time as offering condolences to other mourners.
(respect)
English plurals
(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.
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As nouns the difference between respects and ways
is that respects is plural of lang=en while ways is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.As a verb respects
is third-person singular of respect.respects
English
Noun
(head)- Please come to the funeral service and pay your last respects for her grandmother.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----ways
English
Noun
(-)citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=36 , passage= By the time the Mauretania was ready for launching a total weight of 16,800 tons was standing in the berth, and this represented the heaviest weight that had ever been sent down the ways up to that time. }}
- “We still have a ways to go with patterns.”
- “You still have a ways to go with everything,” I told him.