1. Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
   "The newly constructed ship slid down the ways into the harbour";
   - shipway, slipway

1. How something is done or how it happens
   "a lonely way of life";
   - manner, mode, style, fashion
    
2. To have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
   "the true way to success";
   - means, agency
    
3. A course of conduct
   "we went our separate ways"; "Minimalism had become their way of life";
   - path, way of life
    
4. Any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
   "he said he was looking for the way out"
    
5. A line leading to a place or point
   "didn't know the way home";
   - direction
    
6. A journey or passage
   "they are on the way"
    
7. Space for movement
   "make way for";
   - room, elbow room
    
8. The condition of things generally
   "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way"
    
9. The property of distance in general
   "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways"
    
10. Doing as one pleases or chooses
    "if I had my way"
     
11. A general category of things; used in the expression ‘in the way of’
    "they didn't have much in the way of clothing"
     
12. A portion of something divided into shares
    "they split the loot three ways"

Sounds like: way, weigh, whey, We, ways

Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], category, choice, condition, construction, course, course of action, distance, effectuation, implementation, itinerary, journey, journeying, part, path, percentage, pick, portion, position, property, route, selection, share, spatial relation, status, structure

Part of: shipyard, transit [N. Amer], transportation, transportation system

Encyclopedia: Ways