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Ways vs Customs - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ways and customs

is that ways is while customs is .

ways

English

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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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    customs

    English

    (wikipedia customs)

    Noun

    (head)
    • The culture had many distinctive and interesting beliefs and customs .
  • (pluralonly) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
    • Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.
  • (label) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
    • Customs has pulled us over on our way for an inspection.