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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ways mean? 

• WAYS (noun)
  The noun WAYS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WAYS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

shipway; slipway; ways

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)

 Context examples 

I knows his ways, and Em'ly's, and I knows their sorrows, and can be a comfort to 'em, some odd times, and labour for 'em allus!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While NADPH is an important energy carrier and is closely related to the high-energy electron carrier NADH, NADPH is distinct from NADH in several ways.

(Oxidative Reactions of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It may do this in multiple ways from holding the cell at a checkpoint until repairs can be made to causing the cell to enter apoptosis if the damage cannot be repaired.

(p53 Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Fortunately, there are many ways to treat pain.

(Pain, NIH)

Then bring it with you that in all ways the operation is successful.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"There be ways and ways," she added.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

There are many different ways that an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay can be done.

(Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, NCI Dictionary)

There are different ways to do a biopsy.

(Biopsy, NIH)

His brain worked in dim ways.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There must be ways, it can't be too late.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)