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WAYS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

Synonyms:

shipway; slipway; ways

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ways" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Holonyms ("ways" is a part of...):

shipyard (a workplace where ships are built or repaired)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Come, Watson,” said he, “our ways lie elsewhere. Our next station must be the office from which the papers were taken.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You know the doctor’s ways, sir, replied Poole, and how he shuts himself up.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Emerging technologies refers to new techniques and devices, or older techniques being used in new ways.

(Emerging Technologies, NCI Thesaurus)

In a hundred other ways he has helped him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The screening studies also provided important clues to the ways the drugs were working.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

If the site on the envelope glycoprotein functions in Zika as it does in related viruses, the detailed structure might help scientists design ways to block viral attachment and entry to human cells.

(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)

Because of that, scientists have looked for other ways to map the galaxy.

(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Clinical trials that study ways of reducing the risk of getting cancer.

(Cancer Prevention Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

Learning more about ways you can help yourself may ease some of your concerns.

(Cancer--Living with Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Blood pressure medicines work in different ways to lower blood pressure.

(Blood Pressure Medicines, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)