method [path.]

Roget category 627

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.1. Conceptional volition

#627. Method [Path.]

noun

method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise — modus operandi, MO — procedure etc. (line of conduct) 692.
path, road, route, course — line of way, line of road — trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack.
steps — stair, staircase — flight of stairs, ladder, stile — perron^†.
bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway — drawbridge — pass, ford, ferry, tunnel — pipe etc. 260.
door — gateway etc. (opening) 260 — channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit^† — artery, lane, loan [Scot.], alley, aisle, lobby, corridor — back-door, back-stairs — secret passage — covert way — vennel^†.
roadway, pathway, stairway — express — thoroughfare — highway — turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road — broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway — beaten track, beaten path — horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path — walk, trottoir^†, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk — crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway — cut — short cut etc. (mid-course) 628 — carrefour^† — private road, occupation road — highways and byways — railroad, railway, tram road, tramway — towpath — causeway — canal etc. (conduit) 350 — street etc. (abode) 189 — speedway.
adv.. how — in what way, in what manner — by what mode — so, in this way, after this fashion.
one way or another, anyhow — somehow or other etc. (instrumentality) 631 — by way of — via — in transitu [Lat.] etc. 270 — on the high road to.

phrase

hae tibi erunt artes [Lat.].

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