Synonyms of the word headway


HEADWAYADVANCE - CLEARANCE - HEAD - HEADROOM - PROGRESS - PROGRESSION - ROOM - WAY

headway

  • n. Movement ahead or forward.
  • n. (nautical) Forward motion, or its rate.
  • n. (countable, transport) The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses)…
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) Progress toward a goal.
  • n. (countable) The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.
  • n. (coal-mining) A cross-heading.

advance

  • v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
  • v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
  • v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
  • v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
  • v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
  • v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
  • v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
  • v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
  • v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
  • n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
  • n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
  • n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
  • n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
  • adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
  • adj. Preceding.
  • adj. Forward.

clearance

  • n. The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
  • n. The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine.
  • n. The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls…
  • n. A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
  • n. A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
  • n. A sale of merchandise at a reduced price.
  • n. (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks…
  • n. (medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
  • n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
  • n. (soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
  • n. (chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move…
  • n. Clear or net profit.

head

  • n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
  • n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
  • n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
  • n. A significant or important part.
  • n. Headway; progress.
  • n. Topic; subject.
  • n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
  • n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
  • n. (slang) The glans penis.
  • n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
  • n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
  • adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
  • adj. Placed at the top or the front.
  • adj. Coming from in front.
  • v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
  • v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
  • v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
  • v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a head.
  • v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
  • v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
  • v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
  • v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
  • v. To set on the head.

headroom

  • n. The vertical clearance above someone's head, as in a tunnel, doorway etc.
  • n. (electronics) The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom.
  • n. The distance between the actual performance of an algorithm and its maximum possible performance.

progress

  • n. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
  • n. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
  • n. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
  • n. (now rare) A journey forward; travel.
  • n. Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
  • v. (intransitive) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
  • v. (intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.

progression

  • n. The act of moving from one thing to another.
  • n. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
  • n. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
  • n. Development, increase, evolution.
  • n. (music) chord progression.

room

  • adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
  • adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  • adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
  • n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  • n. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  • n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
  • n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  • n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
  • n. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  • n. (countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
  • n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  • n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
  • n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
  • n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  • n. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room.
  • n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  • v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  • v. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

way

  • n. (heading) To do with a place or places.
  • n. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
  • n. A state or condition.
  • n. (heading) Personal interaction.
  • n. (paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft,…
  • n. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
  • n. A degree, an amount, a sense.
  • n. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions…
  • n. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large…
  • n. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table…
  • interj. (only in reply to no way) It is true.
  • v. (obsolete) To travel.
  • adv. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
  • adv. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
  • adv. (informal) Far.
  • n. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

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