Headway
['hedweɪ] or ['hɛd,we]
Definition
(noun.) forward movement; 'the ship made little headway against the gale'.
Typist: Natalie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
(n.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.
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Examples
- You can hardly realize, then, how difficult I found it at first, and how long I had to wait before I succeeded in making any headway. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The two main spans are 1,710 feet, and these both give a clear headway for navigation of 150 feet height. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But it could make no headway against the cheap labour of Europe in watch-making, and the country was flooded with watches of all qualities, principally from Switzerland and England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- More alert and imaginative than other boys, and with an uncommonly good memory, he made great headway at Mr. Coryton’s grammar school, where he went when he was six. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Meanwhile the Turks were making great headway in Hungary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You make no headway. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It has a central span of 1,595? feet between the two towers, over which the suspension cables are hung, and has a clear headway beneath of 135 feet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It crosses two channels formed by the island of Inchgarvie, and each of the channel spans is 1710 feet in the clear and a clear headway of 150 feet under the bridge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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