IN THE WAY

Definition: IN THE WAY

IN THE WAY

1. So as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Difficulty

Verb: be difficult; Adjective: run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex; (uncertain); bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible; be in the way of; (hinder).

Hindrance

In the way of, unfavorable; onerous, burdensome; cumbrous, cumbersome; obtrusive.

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Nearness

Within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; Noun: at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; Noun: in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition; (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way.

Opposition

In spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of one's teeth.

Possibility

Render possible; Adjective: put in the way of.

Presence

Verb: exist in space, be present; Adjective: assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be there.

Teaching

Given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right.

Crosswords: IN THE WAY

Don't stand in the way of my actualization as a man. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

It's just something I do, and I can't believe I'm telling you this, but I really like you, and I don't want it getting in the way down the road (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander)

Tiggers can't climb down, uhBecauseBecause their tails get in the way. (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

Don't let vengeance get in the way of finishing your mom's work (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster)

My boobs are in the way. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

My tears get in the way (Lost Without Your Love; performing artist: BREAD)

Yeah, I feel it in the way you touch (Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know; performing artist: Britney Spears)

I can see it in your eyes and feel it in the way you kiss my lips (The Circle Is Small; performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot)

There are mountains in the way ("Up Where We Belong"; performing artist: Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes)

I let my pride get in the way (Mirror Mirror; performing artist: M2M)

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Always in the Way (1915)

Only In the Way (1911)

Getting in the Way Every Time (1995)

Words Get In The Way (performing artist: Miami Sound Machine)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Arts (Bruce Lee Library, Vol 2) (reference)

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACS on parade ground going through the company drill. The U.S. Army men who trained these WAACS say they are better marchers than men and take a lot of pride in the way the girls have caught on, Des Moines, Iowa, 1942. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To which, if one shall add rewards and punishments visibly employed to the same end, and all the arts of perverted law made use of, to take off and destroy all that stand in the way of such a design, and will not comply and consent to betray the liberties of their country, it will be past doubt what is doing. (Second Treatise of Government)

No impediment shall be placed in the way of the introduction or employment in the mines and their accessories and subsidiaries of workmen from without the Basin. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In the way of love, I am sure he does not.

After two or three months she shook off her shame and went out as if there were nothing in the way.

I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself directly in the way, yet looking with a very mild aspect, never offering the least violence

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

People with HD commonly have impairments in the way the eye follows or fixes on a moving target. (references)

The findings, published in 1998, are important in that they may bring about a change in the way the medical community treats ischemic stroke. (references)

The study showed that the operation was unnecessary and possibly dangerous, causing a paradigm shift in the way neurosurgeons approached stroke prevention. (references)

Business

The failure however should not necessarily attributed to the unsuitability of the concept, but it could have been caused by errors in the way by which it is applied in Greece. (references)

More and more parents want their children to dress in the way parents do. As casual fashion is very popular among young parents, children's fashion has become more casual while remaining stylish. (references)

Changes will continue to take place in the way sea ports are organized and controlled, but given the heterogeneous and dynamic character of this industry, these changes will not occur in a uniform manner. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

Deportations of both illegal and legal immigrants, abusive treatment by police, and inconsistencies and inequities in the way employers provide wages and benefits to domestic and foreign workers were common. (references)

Economic History

Bermuda

Bermuda has little in the way of exports or manufactures. (references)

South Africa

There is a range of obstacles however, that stand in the way of increasing SADC's role in the global economy. (references)

Minorities

Moldova

One example was an article in the National Journal on April 10 entitled "Sects in Moldova Recruit Followers by Promising Them Everything, After Which they Separate Them from God Forever." Several representatives of religious groups complained that this article was biased, especially in the way that it focused on the less mainstream groups. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

Congress voted on January 22 to recognize Noboa as President after Mahuad himself announced that he would not stand in the way of Noboa's accession to power. (references)

NORWAY

Restrictions also remain in the distribution of alcohol, which historically has been handled through state monopolies, and in the way pharmaceutical drugs are marketed. (references)

Political Rights

Singapore

The Government also has placed significant obstacles in the way of opposition political figures' candidacy for the presidency, a largely ceremonial position that nonetheless has significant budget oversight powers, as well as some powers over civil service appointments and internal security affairs. (references)

Trade

Mexico

It is expected to have a deep impact in the way that Mexican firms do business. (references)

Thailand

Five copies of the original label, together with the Thai labels attached in the way that the food product will be presented for marketing, must be attached to the application. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "IN THE WAY": be in the way ♦ be in the way of ♦ be in the way to ♦ get in the way ♦ get in the way on ♦ In the way with ♦ put in the way of ♦ put soeone in the way ♦ stand in the way of ♦ stay in the way of ♦ To lie in the way. Additional references.

Albanian

pengoj (arrest, baffle, balk, baulk, block, clog, cross, cumber, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, estop, foil, forbid, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hedge in, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, interfere, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep away from, let, obstruct, occlude, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, resist, set back, shut in, stumble, trammel, traverse, trouble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في الطريق (en route), ‏على طول الطريق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стоя на пътя (get in the way on). (various references)

Chinese 

擋 (a cover, arrange, cover, hinder, keep off, obstruct, put in order, resist, to block, to get in the way of). (various references)

Czech

vstoupit do cesty (get in the way), překážet (get in the way, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, resist, restrain, stymie, tie up). (various references)

Dutch

verstoppen (block, clog, conceal, constipate, hamper, hide, hinder, impede, obstruct, plug up, stand in the way of, stop up), opstoppen (hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, stand in the way of), obstructie voeren (hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, stand in the way of), belemmeren (bar, bother, disturb, hamper, hinder, impede, inhibit, obstruct, oppose, prevent, stand in the way of, trouble). (various references)

Esperanto

obstrukci (hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, stand in the way of). (various references)

Faeroese

tippa (block, clog, hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, plug up, stand in the way of, stop up), tarna (hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, stand in the way of), tálma (hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, stand in the way of), draga út (hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, stand in the way of). (various references)

Finnish

eteen (forward, to the front). (various references)

French

en cour de la route. (various references)

German

in die Quere kommen (cross smb.'s path, thwart, to get in the way). (various references)

Greek 

στην μέση. (various references)

Guarani

rapépe. (various references)

Hebrew 

להפריע (cut in, disturb, get in the way, hamper, hinder, interfere, interrupt, supervene). (various references)

Hungarian

útban (on the way, on the way out). (various references)

Italian

impicciare (be in the way, hinder, interfere, meddle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

通せん坊 (block the way, stand in the way), 余し物 (person who is in the way, something not needed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あましもの (person who is in the way, something not needed), とおせんぼう (block the way, stand in the way). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay ethay ayway.(various references)

Romanian

sta în cale (be in the way), deranja (annoy, be in the way, bother, come amiss to smb., derange, disarrange, discomfort, discommode, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disturb, fidget, hinder, incommode, interrupt, intrude, intrude one's presence on smb., intrude upon, ruffle, spoil, trouble, tumble), împiedica trecerea (be in the way). (various references)

Russian 

стоять на пути (stand in the way), стоять поперек дороги (be in the road, be in the way, get in smb.'s road), в отношении (in holding for, in point of, in the way of, vis-a-vis, with regard to), мешать (be in the road, be in the way, come between, disturb, estop, get in smb.'s road, get in the way, hamper, head off, incommode, interfere, interfered, interfered with, interrupt, mix, obstruct, oppose, overslaugh, poke, preclude), быть под рукой (be in the way). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

isprečiti (get in the way), preprečiti (cumber, get in the way, obstruct, thwart). (various references)

Spanish

en la vía. (various references)

Swedish

stå i vägen för (stand in the way of), skymma (conceal, darken, dim, obscure, obstruct, stay in the way of). (various references)

Turkish

olanak vermek (admit of, enable, make possible, open a door to smth., permit, put soeone in the way), fırsat vermek (give a break, give an opportunity, play into smb.'s hands, put soeone in the way), şans tanımak (give a break, give a chance, give an opportunity, give smb. a show, put soeone in the way). (various references)

obviam, obvias, obvium, obvius, oppansum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: tawney, wahine, whiney, whiten, whitey, witney.

-3 letters: entia, hyena, neath, tawie, tawny, tenia, thane, thein, thewy, thine, tinea, twain, twine, twiny, waney, wheat, whine, whiny, white, whity, winey, witan, withe, withy, yenta.

-4 letters: anew, ante, anti, awny, ayin, eath, etna, haen, haet, hant, hate, heat, hent, hewn, hint, hwan, hyte, neat, newt, nite.