Wars vs Ways - What's the difference?
wars | ways |
(war)
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 wars and ways
is that wars is while ways is .As a verb wars
is (war).wars
English
Noun
(head)- He's tough. He's been through all the wars .
Verb
(head)- His envy wars at his generosity.
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.
