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Type is a synonym of way.



As nouns the difference between way and type

is that way is To do with a place or places.type is a grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

As verbs the difference between way and type

is that way is to travel while type is to put text on paper using a typewriter.

As an interjection way

is it is true.

As an adverb way

is much.

As a proper noun Way

is christianity in translations of texts from the 1st century AD, notably the Acts of the Apostles.

way

English

(wikipedia way)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wei, wai, weighe, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* waye (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) To do with a place or places.
  • #A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
  • #:
  • #*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • #*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
  • #*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
  • #*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • #*, chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.
  • #A means to enter or leave a place.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
  • #A roughly-defined geographical area.
  • #:
  • A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.
  • *
  • , chapter=2, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • (lb) Personal interaction.
  • #Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
  • #:
  • #Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
  • #:
  • (lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
  • (lb) Speed, progress, momentum.
  • *1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
  • *:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .
  • A degree, an amount, a sense.
  • :
  • *, chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
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  • Quotations
    * (path or direction) "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [ : "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary , a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One] * (a tradition within Heathenry) To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
    Hyponyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * by way of * by the way * change one's ways * come one's way * either way * every which way * give way * go all the way * go out of one's way * have it both ways * in a way * in the way * in the way of * have a way with * have one's way * have one's wicked way * know one's way around * lose one's way * no way * no way to treat a lady * on the way * one way or another * right of way * runway * slipway * taxiway * the way things are * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach * wayfinding * way in * way of all flesh * Way of the Cross * way of the world / ways of the world * way of life * way off * way out * waybill * way to go

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • It is true.
  • *
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To travel.
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
  • on a time as they together way'd , / He made him open chalenge [...].

    Statistics

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    Etymology 2

    Apheresis of (m).

    Alternative forms

    * (dated)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
  • I'm way too tired to do that.
    I'm a way better singer than she.
  • * 2006 , , Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,
  • It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
  • (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
  • I'm way tired
    String theory is way cool, except for the math.
  • * 2005 , Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts , page 16,
  • With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
  • (informal) Far.
  • I used to live way over there.
    The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
    Synonyms
    * (much) far, much, loads * (very) so, very

    Etymology 3

    From the sound it represents, by analogy with other velar letters such as kay'' and ''gay .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
  • type

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Gemstones , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
  • An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
  • * 2002 , Pat Conroy, The Great Santini , page 4:
  • "I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."
  • An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
  • * 1872 , Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal , volume 3, page 116:
  • Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
  • (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
  • # (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
  • # (chiefly, uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
  • The headline was set in bold type .
  • (biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.
  • Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
  • (biology) A blood group.
  • (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
  • (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
  • (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
  • (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
  • The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
  • (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed'' theory). (''Note : this to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
  • * Types, theory of. V.N. Grishin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics . URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
  • Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type -theoretic systems.
    Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types .

    Synonyms

    * (grouping based on shared characteristics) category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe * (computing theory) data type * (printing) sort * See also

    Derived terms

    * antitype * archetype * blood type * built-in type * composite type * cotype * ideal type * movable type * normal type * primitive type * structured type * typeface * type-safe * typesetter * typewriter * typography * typology * typology * user-defined type

    Verb

    (typ)
  • To put text on paper using a typewriter.
  • To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
  • To determine the blood type of.
  • The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
  • To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
  • To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
  • * Tennyson
  • Let us type them now in our own lives.

    Descendants

    * Esperanto: (l)

    Anagrams

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