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Wrays vs Ways - What's the difference?

wrays | ways |

As a verb wrays

is (wray).

As a noun ways is

.

wrays

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wray)

    • wray

    English

    Alternative forms

    * wreye (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To denounce (a person).
  • (obsolete) To reveal (a secret).
  • * Late 14th century: no thyng dorste he seye, / Save in his songes somwhat wolde he wreye / His wo — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • (obsolete) To betray.

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    ways

    English

    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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