Very vs. Way

Veryadjective

True, real, actual.

‘The fierce hatred of a very woman.’; ‘The very blood and bone of our grammar.’; ‘He tried his very best.’;

Waynoun

(heading) To do with a place or places.

Veryadjective

The same; identical.

‘He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.’; ‘That's the very tool that I need.’;

Waynoun

A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

‘Do you know the way to the airport?’; ‘Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.’; ‘It's a long way from here.’;

Veryadjective

With limiting effect: mere.

Waynoun

A means to enter or leave a place.

‘We got into the cinema through the back way.’;

Veryadverb

To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

‘You’re drinking very slowly.’; ‘That dress is very you.’;

Waynoun

A roughly-defined geographical area.

‘If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.’;

Veryadverb

True, truly.

Waynoun

A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

‘You're going about it the wrong way.’; ‘He's known for his quirky ways.’; ‘I don't like the way she looks at me.’;

Veryadverb

(with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.

‘He was the very best runner there.’;

Waynoun

A state or condition

‘When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.’;

Veryadjective

True; real; actual; veritable.

‘Whether thou be my very son Esau or not.’; ‘He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.’; ‘The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.’; ‘I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice.’;

Waynoun

(heading) Personal interaction.

Veryadverb

In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sun; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.

Waynoun

Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

‘There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.’;

Veryadjective

precisely as stated;

‘the very center of town’;

Waynoun

Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

‘My little sister always whines until she gets her way.’;

Veryadjective

being the exact same one; not any other:;

‘this is the identical room we stayed in before’; ‘the themes of his stories are one and the same’; ‘saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers’; ‘on this very spot’; ‘the very thing he said yesterday’; ‘the very man I want to see’;

Waynoun

(paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.

Veryadjective

used to give emphasis to the relevance of the thing modified;

‘his very name struck terror’; ‘caught in the very act’;

Waynoun

(nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.

Veryadjective

used to give emphasis;

‘the very essence of artistic expression is invention’; ‘the very back of the room’;

Waynoun

A degree, an amount, a sense.

‘In a large way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.’;

Veryadverb

used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal;

‘she was very gifted’; ‘he played very well’; ‘a really enjoyable evening’; ‘I'm real sorry about it’; ‘a rattling good yarn’;

Waynoun

Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.

‘Way to ruin the moment, guys.’;

Veryadverb

precisely so;

‘on the very next page’; ‘he expected the very opposite’;

Waynoun

(plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.

Waynoun

(plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.

Waynoun

The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Wayinterjection

(only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible

Wayverb

(obsolete) To travel.

Wayadverb

Much.

‘I'm way too tired to do that.’; ‘I'm a way better singer than Emma.’;

Wayadverb

Very.

‘I'm way tired’; ‘String theory is way cool, except for the math.’;

Wayadverb

(informal) Far.

‘I used to live way over there.’; ‘The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.’;

Wayadverb

Away.

Waynoun

That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.

‘I shall him seek by way and eke by street.’; ‘The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.’; ‘The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.’;

Waynoun

Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.

‘And whenever the way seemed long,Or his heart began to fail.’;

Waynoun

A moving; passage; procession; journey.

‘I prythee, now, lead the way.’;

Waynoun

Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.

‘If that way be your walk, you have not far.’; ‘And let eternal justice take the way.’;

Waynoun

The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.

‘My best way is to creep under his gaberdine.’; ‘By noble ways we conquest will prepare.’; ‘What impious ways my wishes took!’;

Waynoun

Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.

Waynoun

Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.

‘Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.’; ‘When men lived in a grander way.’;

Waynoun

Sphere or scope of observation.

‘The public ministers that fell in my way.’;

Waynoun

Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.

Waynoun

Progress; as, a ship has way.

Waynoun

The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.

Waynoun

Right of way. See below.

‘All keep the broad highway, and take delightWith many rather for to go astray.’; ‘There is but one road by which to climb up.’; ‘When nightDarkens the streets, then wander forth the sonsOf Belial, flown with insolence and wine.’;

Wayverb

To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.

Wayverb

To move; to progress; to go.

‘On a time as they together wayed.’;

Waynoun

how something is done or how it happens;

‘her dignified manner’; ‘his rapid manner of talking’; ‘their nomadic mode of existence’; ‘in the characteristic New York style’; ‘a lonely way of life’; ‘in an abrasive fashion’;

Waynoun

how a result is obtained or an end is achieved;

‘a means of control’; ‘an example is the best agency of instruction’; ‘the true way to success’;

Waynoun

a journey or passage;

‘they are on the way’;

Waynoun

the condition of things generally;

‘that's the way it is’; ‘I felt the same way’;

Waynoun

a course of conduct;

‘the path of virtue’; ‘we went our separate ways’; ‘our paths in life led us apart’; ‘genius usually follows a revolutionary path’;

Waynoun

any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another;

‘he said he was looking for the way out’;

Waynoun

a line leading to a place or point;

‘he looked the other direction’; ‘didn't know the way home’;

Waynoun

the property of distance in general;

‘it's a long way to Moscow’; ‘he went a long ways’;

Waynoun

doing as one pleases or chooses;

‘if I had my way’;

Waynoun

a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of';

‘they didn't have much in the way of clothing’;

Waynoun

space for movement;

‘room to pass’; ‘make way for’; ‘hardly enough elbow room to turn around’;

Waynoun

a portion of something divided into shares;

‘the split the loot three ways’;

Wayadverb

to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States);

‘way over budget’; ‘way off base’; ‘the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on’;