What's the difference between prose and way?

Prose


Definition:

  • (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
  • (n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
  • (n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
  • (a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
  • (v. t.) To write in prose.
  • (v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
  • (v. i.) To write prose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (2) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
  • (3) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
  • (4) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
  • (5) With prose that takes the English language and infuses it with inflections and a history that is uniquely Igbo, discernibly Nigerian and unmistakably African, Achebe's is a realism that ensures the enduring relevance of his fiction.
  • (6) It was concluded that CAs are more effective and more efficient than prose for teaching clinical decisionmaking.
  • (7) Young and old adults were tested for recall of ideas presented in a 641 word prose passage.
  • (8) "The inauguration address was poetry, and now people are looking for some prose," said Alden Meyer, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
  • (9) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
  • (10) He writes poetry and prose, he writes news reports and short stories.
  • (11) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
  • (12) These models account for a broad range of memory-related processes, including word recognition, sentence verification, prose comprehension, and sentence production.
  • (13) • Various Voices: Prose, Poetry and Politics 1948-98 is published by Faber (£9.99).To order it at the special price of £7.99 plus 99p p&p, freephone 0500 600 102 or send a cheque payable to The Guardian CultureShop to 250 Western Avenue, London, W3 6EE.
  • (14) His narrative has the simple directness of the finest English prose: the overall effect is both intimate and majestic Perhaps he was lucky.
  • (15) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .
  • (16) Ada banyak prakarsa dari bawah ke atas, mulai dari usaha pengelolaan sampah hingga tingkat nol sampai proses pengelolaan air kotor secara komunal.
  • (17) Subjects suffering from persecutory delusions, psychiatric controls and normal subjects were required to recall immediately six passages of prose, half of which contained mildly threatening propositions.
  • (18) But given how addictive the prose was in Constellation, where Marra was lyrical but also drover quickly, those who loved the John Leonard Prize winner a couple of years back are certainly hungering for more.
  • (19) P3 measures, physiological (body temperature, heart rate, subjective alertness), and cognitive performance (digit span, prose memory, digit symbol) variables were assessed.
  • (20) Someone with a decent prose style should do a proper translation of it.

Way


Definition:

  • (adv.) Away.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
  • (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.
  • (n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
  • (n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
  • (n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
  • (n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
  • (n.) Sphere or scope of observation.
  • (n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
  • (n.) Progress; as, a ship has way.
  • (n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.
  • (n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
  • (n.) Right of way. See below.
  • (v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.
  • (v. i.) To move; to progress; to go.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (4) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
  • (5) Methanosphaera stadtmanae reduces methanol to CH4 in a similar way as Methanosarcina barkeri.
  • (6) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (7) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (8) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
  • (9) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
  • (10) The data support the conclusion that accumulation of lipid II is responsible in some way for the hypersensitivity of delta rfbA mutants to SDS.
  • (11) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (12) The way how to apply this fixator is described in details.
  • (13) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (14) On the way back to Pristina later, the lawyer told me everything was fine.
  • (15) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
  • (16) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (17) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
  • (18) On the other hand, as a cross-reference experiment, we developed a paper work test to do in the same way as on the VDT.
  • (19) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (20) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.

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