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Ways vs Aways - What's the difference?

ways | aways |

As a noun ways

is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

As an adverb aways is

an alternative spelling of a ways|lang=en.

ways

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Noun

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  • English plurals
  • (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1912 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Fredrick A. Talbot , title=Steamship Conquest of the World , chapter= 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. }}
  • (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.

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  • * {{quote-news, year=1870, date=October 8, author=Various, work=Punchinello Vol. 2 No. 28, title= citation
    • , passage=Seein' a platter of ice cream down the table aways , I got up onto my feet, and havin' a good long arm, reached for it. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Elbert Hubbard, title=Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="And just down the hill aways another big man is buried. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1889, author=Annie French Hector, title=A Crooked Path, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Still, the house can't run away, and I suppose will aways let for fifty or sixty pounds a year." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=P. G. Wodehouse, title=The Indiscretions of Archie, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I've aways wanted to go into the movies," he said. }}