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6 aspect, respect, particular, detail, point, sense, feature:
In certain ways, you remind me of Attila the Hun. 7 clearance,
pathway, avenue, scope, freedom, opportunity: When you hear a
siren, drive to the side and give way. Make way for the Lord
High Executioner! 8 condition, situation: She prefers the
prissy 'in a family way' to the straightforward 'pregnant' and
the vulgar 'have a bun in the oven'. I saw Luke yesterday and he
was really in a bad way. 9 by the way. incidentally, moreover,
by the by, parenthetically: By the way, have I told you how
beautiful you look tonight? 10 by way of. a via, through, by
means of: We drove from London to Oxford by way of Reading. b
(functioning) as, in (the) way of, in the capacity of,
equivalent to, more or less, something like: Richard is by way
of being an expert on eccentric behaviour. 11 give way. a
collapse, break (down), fail, cave in, fall (down), crumble,
crumple, disintegrate, go to pieces: The cable gave way,
causing the bridge to collapse. b yield, surrender, retreat,
concede, withdraw, accede, make concessions, acquiesce,
acknowledge: The trouble is that they both think they are in
the right and neither will give way. 12 under way. proceeding,
progressing, on the move, moving, advancing, going, begun,
started, in progress, operating, functioning, at work, US in
work, Colloq in the works, US in the pipeline: Once under way,
it takes the ship three days to make the crossing. Plans are
under way to reclaim the slum area for a park.
waylay v. 1 ambush, lie in wait for, await, intercept, pounce upon or
on, swoop down on or upon, accost: You'll have to waylay him on
his way to lunch if you want to speak to him. 2 attack, mug,
seize, assault, accost, set upon: He was waylaid by a band of
thieves and stripped of his belongings.
way-out adj. 1 bizarre, mad, weird, crazy, strange, odd, peculiar,
freakish, freaky, eccentric, queer, abnormal, offbeat,
outrageous, wild, exotic, esoteric, Colloq kinky, Slang kooky,
off-the-wall, far-out, screwy, nutty, US flaky, screwball: The
police did not take kindly to the boys' way-out behaviour after
the party. 2 avant-garde, advanced, original, innovative,
unorthodox, unconventional, experimental, precedent-setting,
progressive, exploratory, ground-breaking, Slang far-out:
Spencer thinks that the way-out art of the 1960s will have great
value one day.