Headway Definition

hĕdwā
noun
Forward motion.
Webster's New World
Progress or success in work, etc.
Webster's New World

Headroom.

Webster's New World
The clear vertical space beneath a ceiling or archway; clearance.
American Heritage
The difference in time or distance between two trains, ships, etc. traveling in the same direction over the same course.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Headway

Noun

Singular:
headway
Plural:
headways

Origin of Headway

  • Partly from Middle English headway, from Old English hēafodweġ (“head-road, main-road”), equivalent to head- +‎ way; partly as a shortening of ahead-way, the source of the nautical sense.

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Headway Sentence Examples

  • Meanwhile in the Netherlands the sectaries had been making rapid headway in spite of the persecution.

  • If pollen is scarce, a substitute in the form of either pea-meal or wheaten flour must be supplied to the bees, as brood-rearing cannot make headway without the nitrogenous element indispensable in the food on which the young are reared.

  • In the meanwhile the Pisan war dragged on without much headway being made.

  • This became every 2 hrs for each route on Sundays to give a joint hourly headway.

  • Conde made no headway against Amsterdam, and William retook Naarden (September 14th).

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Words Starting With

HHEHEA

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YAYWAY

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Words Starting With H and Ending With Y

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