leeway
noun
1 leeway
of a ship or plane Sideways drift.
Roget 267:
navigation;
aquatics;
boating,
yachting;
ship
etc.
273;
oar,
paddle,
screw,
sail,
canvas,
aileron.
natation†,
swimming;
fin,
flipper,
fish's tail.
aerostation†,
aerostatics†,
aeronautics;
balloonery†;
balloon
etc.
273;
ballooning,
aviation,
airmanship;
flying,
flight,
volitation†;
wing,
pinion;
rocketry,
space travel,
astronautics,
orbital mechanics,
orbiting.
voyage,
sail,
cruise,
passage,
circumnavigation,
periplus†;
headway,
sternway,
leeway;
fairway.
mariner
etc.
269.
flight,
trip;
shuttle,
run,
airlift.
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Roget 133:
lateness
etc.
adj.;
tardiness
etc.
(slowness)
275.
delay,
delation;
cunctation,
procrastination;
deferring,
deferral
etc.
v.;
postponement,
adjournment,
prorogation,
retardation,
respite,
pause,
reprieve,
stay of execution;
protraction,
prolongation;
Fabian policy,
medecine expectante [Fr.],
chancery suit,
federal case;
leeway;
high time;
moratorium,
holdover.
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Roget 304:
shortcoming,
failure;
falling short
etc.
v.;
default,
defalcation;
leeway;
labor in vain,
no go.
incompleteness
etc.
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
failure
etc.
732.
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Dutch: afdrijving, afdrift
2 leeway
A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
synonyms: allowance, margin, tolerance.
Roget 180:
space,
extension,
extent,
superficial extent,
expanse,
stretch,
hyperspace;
room,
scope,
range,
field,
way,
expansion,
compass,
sweep,
swing,
spread.
dimension,
length
etc.
200;
distance
etc.
196;
size
etc.
192;
volume;
hypervolume.
latitude,
play,
leeway,
purchase,
tolerance,
room for maneuver.
spare room,
elbow room,
house room;
stowage,
roomage†,
margin;
opening,
sphere,
arena.
open space,
free space;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
waste;
wildness,
wilderness;
moor,
moorland;
campagna†.
abyss
etc.
(interval)
198;
unlimited space;
infinity
etc.
105;
world;
ubiquity
etc.
(presence)
186;
length and breadth of the land.
proportions,
acreage;
acres,
acres and perches,
roods and perches,
hectares,
square miles;
square inches,
square yards,
square centimeters,
square meters,
yards
(clothing)
&c.;
ares,
arpents†.
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Dutch: speelruimte
Polish: tolerancja
Moby thesaurus: aesthetic distance, air space, ample scope, blank check, caesura, carte blanche, clearance, compass, deep space, depths of space, discontinuity, distance, distance between, divergence, double space, drift, driftway, elbowroom, em space, en space, extent, farness, field, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freeboard, freedom, full scope, full swing, hair space, half space, headroom, headway, hiatus, infinity, interim, intermediate space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lacuna, latitude, leap, length, light-years, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, mileage, no holds barred, open space, parsecs, perspective, piece, play, progress, range, reach, remoteness, room, room to spare, rope, scope, sea room, separation, single space, slack, space, space between, span, spare room, steerageway, sternway, stretch, stride, swing, time interval, tolerance, way, ways, wide berth ... show more.
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