Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- preposition By way of.
- preposition By means of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Away! off! formerly a word of encouragement from commanders to their men, riders to their horses, etc., and also an expression of impatience, defiance, etc.
- noun A highway; a road; a way or passage.
- noun In anatomy and medicine, a natural passage of the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition By the way of.
- noun A road or way.
- noun (Astron.) the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See
Galaxy , 1. - noun (Theol.) the middle way; -- a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- preposition By way of; passing through.
- preposition By (means of); using (a medium).
- noun A main
road orhighway , especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.) - noun electronics A small
hole in a printed-circuit board filled withmetal which connects two or morelayers .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The up train, which runs from Bristol to London in exactly two hours, via Badminton, is matched by a down train in the same time by the easier but slightly longer main line (_via_ Bath), giving a start-to-stop speed of 59-1/8 miles an hour, with a dead slow through Bath Station.
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time Robert Charles Tombs 1882
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The word via means "by way of" or "through," which gets at the heart of VIA at HCH's three-fold goal: to better the conditions of life for others through service to humanity, build alliances between religious and nonreligious individuals and communities and combat the misconception that the nonreligious do not contribute to society.
Chris Stedman: Why We're Announcing Two Atheist-Led Initiatives at Park51 Islamic Center Chris Stedman 2011
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When the owner/operators Amy Pulley and Alice Cozzolino wanted to sell, they spread the word via their customers.
Linda Hassler: Rachel Maddow and the Little Grocery That Could Linda Hassler 2011
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When the owner/operators Amy Pulley and Alice Cozzolino wanted to sell, they spread the word via their customers.
Linda Hassler: Rachel Maddow and the Little Grocery That Could Linda Hassler 2011
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When the owner/operators Amy Pulley and Alice Cozzolino wanted to sell, they spread the word via their customers.
Linda Hassler: Rachel Maddow and the Little Grocery That Could Linda Hassler 2011
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The word via means "by way of" or "through," which gets at the heart of VIA at HCH's three-fold goal: to better the conditions of life for others through service to humanity, build alliances between religious and nonreligious individuals and communities and combat the misconception that the nonreligious do not contribute to society.
Chris Stedman: Why We're Announcing Two Atheist-Led Initiatives at Park51 Islamic Center Chris Stedman 2011
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The university announced that the team would arrive at Hinkle Field-house sometime after midnight, spreading the word via radio, e-mails, and texts.
Underdawgs David Woods 2010
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Today the easiest solution to fragments is to issue them ISBNs and to link them to the title via a combination or an ISTC.
So how do we Identify a Chunk? Martyn Daniels 2008
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Today the easiest solution to fragments is to issue them ISBNs and to link them to the title via a combination or an ISTC.
Archive 2008-01-01 Martyn Daniels 2008
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In 1934, when he was matched up against Max Baer in a legitimate contest, Carnera got knocked down eleven times before losing the title via TKO.
“Classy” Freddie Blassie Freddie Blassie 2003
100000202761447 commented on the word via
I see this word all the time and it's just fun to say..Just ask Samantha Puckett "i-Carly"
September 20, 2010