What's the difference between thoroughfare and way?

Thoroughfare


Definition:

  • (n.) A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.
  • (n.) A passing or going through; passage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
  • (2) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (3) The thoroughfare channel reported by Chambers and Zweifach was also observed.
  • (4) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
  • (5) True arteriovenous shunts are not present in most skeletal muscles, but 15-20% of the microvessels represent thoroughfare or preferential flow channels.
  • (6) It’s just their economic status that makes them more vulnerable.” A growing body of research also shows that those living within a few hundred metres of major thoroughfares suffer greater health problems.
  • (7) On a prominent site on Notting Hill Gate, the main thoroughfare, between a popular cinema and the busy underground station, he took over the premises of a cheap Italian café called Topo D’Oro.
  • (8) In the anterior portion of the ciliary processes a "thoroughfare channel" (bypass) was found leading from the arteriolar tree directly into the marginal venule bypassing the capillary network of the ciliary processes.
  • (9) Turkey, with its long and often porous border with Syria, has been a major thoroughfare for many of the thousands of foreign fighters seeking to join extremists including Islamic State (Isis), which has captured territory across Iraq and Syria.
  • (10) Many cities would struggle if given just 24 hours to organise a victory parade which involved the deployment of two helicopters, countless police officers, a small army of undercover security experts and the closure not just of the main square but also a key thoroughfare, in the middle of the rush hour.
  • (11) The Marriott is in the centre of the city, close to the national assembly, the main commercial thoroughfare and the national television headquarters.
  • (12) But on Qasr-el-Aini Street , a normally frantic thoroughfare that passes the houses of parliament, the walls have rid the area of cars.
  • (13) Ulster loyalists are mobilising to block the parade being routed through Royal Avenue, Belfast's main shopping thoroughfare.
  • (14) There are more than 5m cars in Beijing, and they have transformed its once-generous thoroughfares into a noxious, honking mass.
  • (15) For Chris Hadfield, the former commander of the International Space Station , it was Plank Road, a 19th-century thoroughfare running through southern Ontario, Canada.
  • (16) Assad’s troops imposed a siege last month after seizing high ground overlooking the Castello Road, the only thoroughfare bringing aid to the east of the city from Turkey, which backs the opposition.
  • (17) Egypt plans to add an extra lane to the Suez canal, one of the world's most important thoroughfares for trade, in an attempt to increase the number of ships using it each day.
  • (18) flooded on to Tverskaya Street, the Moscow thoroughfare that leads straight to the Kremlin.
  • (19) Traffic along Calle Ocho, the main thoroughfare of Little Havana, became noticeably lighter and all work was dropped as groups of people crowded around TV sets to witness this piece of history.
  • (20) 2.39pm BST Athens returns to normal... And it's back to business on Ermou, Athens' main commercial thoroughfare, says Helena Smith who is out on the ground.

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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