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ON THE WAY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On a route to some place
Example:
we saw him on the way to California
Synonyms:
en route; on the way
Classified under:
Context examples:
I didn't know it this morning, and there was no time to send word, for I met him on the way out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I couldn’t convince her all at once, an’ so I brought her with me, and we argued it out on the way.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The device measures the amount of oxygen in the blood based on the way red blood cells carrying oxygen absorb and reflect light.
(Oxygen saturation test, NCI Dictionary)
“Not for that one. This is the first I have heard of that one. I have been thinking that he will most likely propose that one, on the way home. Mine's another.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I am going through the City first, and we can have some lunch on the way.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A phonetic algorithm for indexing words based on the way they sound.
(Metaphone, NCI Thesaurus)
“These … extend to those like the young and healthy university students. And that we find significant effects on the way they think - their cognitive functions.”
(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)
One of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex.
(Geniculate Body, NCI Thesaurus)
Summerlee and I got some rough handlin' on the way—there's my skin and my clothes to prove it—for they took us a bee-line through the brambles, and their own hides are like leather.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
