OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5509

way

/weɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
camino • vía
To do with a place or places.
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.
Twen miles is a long way to walk.
medios
To do with a place or places.
Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outsi…
We got into the cinema through the back way.
derrota • derrotero
Speed, progress, momentum.
Immediately afterwards, a quick and eager short dark man came into the room with so much way upon him that he was within a foot of Clennam before he could stop.
Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 8508

weigh

/weɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pesar
To determine the weight of an object.
pesar
To have a certain weight.
Each half-section of the battery weighs about eight tons, and the two underframes had to be strengthened to take this weight.
I weigh ten and a half stone.
desancorar • levar
To raise an anchor free of the seabed.