All The Way

Definitions: All The Way

All The Way

Adverb

1. To the goal; "she climbed the mountain all the way".

2. Completely; "read the book clear to the end"; "slept clear through the night"; "there were open fields clear to the horizon".

3. Not stopping short of sexual intercourse; "she went all the way with him".

Synonyms: All The Way

Synonyms: clear (adv), the whole way (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: All The Way

English words defined with "all the way": According as, around, aside, askance, At all, away ♦ By any means ♦ Center sun, circuit, climb, come down ♦ descend ♦ Every now and then, extend ♦ fall ♦ go, go down ♦ hard, hit ♦ Joint and several ♦ Lasso cell, lead ♦ Nappe, none ♦ pass, Progressive euchre ♦ run ♦ shirtdress ♦ Tide lock, To give place, To give way together, To run amuck, tour ♦ Way warden. (references)

Specialty definitions using "all the way": @Begin ♦ Abdomen, Abscond, Adherens Junctions, Alternating bit protocol, Animal identification and traceback, Anschreibung, ASCIIbonics, Axiom of Choice ♦ blind thrust fault, Business Process Re-engineering ♦ Carthaginem esse Delendam, CASC, case based reasoning, channel service unit, CMI centrifuge, content addressable memory, Controversy, correlation detection, Crush-room ♦ data flow, Deans, Degrees, Song of, Deputy, distributed computer systems, Drive it home, dup loop ♦ EASC, Effluent Stream, eta conversion ♦ fall apart/to, Farm size, FORMA, Formal Description Technique, FUBAR, fully associative cache ♦ Go on all Fours, Grangousier, Granite Redoubt, greenhouse gas, Gunpowder ♦ hacker humor, hacker humour, HEAD ♦ -head ♦ heap sampling, HEATHEN, Helium Nucelosynthesis, Hewlett Packard Multi Processing Executive ♦ ill-behaved, IMMORAL, IMPROBABILITY, INFALAPSARIAN, interlaced image, interlaced picture, interlaced video image, Intersil 6100 ♦ malleablizing, Malthusian, man, MASC, Mountain, Multipop-68, mutual capital certificate ♦ nastistical, Netcom On-line Communication Services, Inc. ♦ Outworks ♦ Pascal-, PEARY, Pharaoh's daughters, Pipe-line, power-on self-test, Proportion of faith, protected mode ♦ QDOS ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, reporter ♦ serial, Shalott, sheriff, SIMULA I, SMITHAREEN, spamdex, SPECmark, speech recognition, spod, statutory processes, story, syntactic sugar ♦ vaxocentrism ♦ WASC, Wise as the Women of Mungret. (references)

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Modern Usage: All The Way

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well the bloody police must have heard it all the way to bloody Salisbury. (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) I found them all the way in the bottom of my pack. (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) They're stuck with each other and they've got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery. (Double Indemnity; writing credit: James M. Cain; Billy Wilder) Now they go all the way up. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)
Lyrics	I can see you running all the way back home (Talk To Me; performing artist: Stevie Nicks; writing credit: C. Sandford) I'll chase you all the way to stairway, honey (Love In An Elevator; performing artist: Aerosmith) You need me all the way (Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know; performing artist: Britney Spears) Desert loving in your eyes all the way (Karma Chameleon; performing artist: Culture Club) I believe all the way (Golden Years; performing artist: DAVID BOWIE)
Clever	Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone! (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	All the Way Home (1971) He Ran All the Way (1951) Uphill All the Way (2001) Going All the Way (1997) Jingle All the Way (1996)
Song Titles	Let's Go All The Way (performing artist: Sly Fox) Go All The Way (performing artist: The Raspberries)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: All The Way

Domain	Title
Books	All the way to Aceldama (reference) She Went All the Way (reference) Pushing the Envelope All the Way to the Top (reference) All the Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet (reference) All the Way to Berlin: The Memoir of an Airborne Platoon Leader (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Contraband: All the Way from Memphis (reference) Celine Dion - All the Way... A Decade of Song & Video (reference) Jingle All the Way (reference) Uphill All the Way (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	All The Way...A Decade of Song (reference) Jingle All the Way (reference) All the Way from Outer Space... (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: All The Way

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A rainwater collector - part of an acid rain observation network that extends from Hilo all the way up Mauna Loa to the observatory at various elevations.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		We are all the way from Oshkosh.Credit: Library of Congress.
	But, Lyndon, all the way up to Great Falls!.Credit: Library of Congress.		"We'll let the overcoat out all the way, and the robe will hardly show at all" / Herblock.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Lieutenant of the armored forces. One of the men who are "in all the way" to upset the Axis timetable.Credit: Library of Congress.		Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Lieutenant of the armored forces. One of the men who are "in all the way" to upset the Axis timetable.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Family from New Mexico, camped near the packinghouse at Deerfield, Florida. Note the box labeled "Yakima apples" which has been carried all the way from the apple orchards of Washington.Credit: Library of Congress.		Passengers on the Greyhound bus going from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, some of which were standing all the way.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Nous irons jusqu'au bout = We will go all the way.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: All The Way

Author	Quotation
Henry Ward Beecher	What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Steven Wright	I can't wait to get arrested and go all the way to the witness stand. "Do you promise to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" "Yes. You're ugly. See that woman in the jury? I'd really like to sleep with her. Should I keep goin' or are you gonna ask me some questions?"
Tori Amos	I'd like to think that my work has multidimensionality. That I can change a pair of shoes in the middle of the song and it's OK. That there is no structure that says I have to wear the same pair all the way through. As long as I've got feet, it's all right.
Walt Disney	Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarised in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy, and the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: All The Way

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	And it walked and it walked all the way along its back.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	Douglas Adams	Mason gave him another grim look from a vast repertoire he had developed which ranged from very, very blackly grim indeed at the bottom of the scale, all the way up to tiredly resigned and only faintly grim, which he reserved for his children's birthdays.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He wore dark ragged pants and a torn blue shirt, open all the way down, and showing long gray underwear, also unbuttoned.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: All The Way

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A surgical procedure called vitrectomy is often used to treat holes that go all the way through the macula. (references)
		However, if the hole goes all the way through the macula, you can lose a lot of your central and detailed vision. (references)
		Colonoscopy (koh-luh-NAH-skuh-pee) lets the physician look inside your entire large intestine, from the lowest part, the rectum, all the way up through the colon to the lower end of the small intestine. (references)
Civil Liberties	Poland	This is expected to represent a significant change from the old system, in which refugees could wait up to 3 months for the first answer and could then appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. (references)
Economic History	Bahrain	This aquifer stretches all the way to Riyadh. (references)
	Japan	Since so little flat area exists, many hills and mountainsides are cultivated all the way to the top. (references)
Trade	Ukraine	Additionally, vehicles transporting goods marked for transit which are subject to excise taxes are required to be wrapped in a transit band all the way through Ukrainian territory. (references)
Travel	Bolivia	There are paved roads from La Paz all the way to Desaguadero (at the Peruvian border on Lake Titicaca), Arica (Chile), Cochabamba and Oruro. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: All The Way

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Gore will host their annual family conference this June on what we can do to make sure that parents are an active part of their children's learning all the way through school.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: All The Way

Expressions using "all the way": all the way around ♦ button all the way up. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: All The Way

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
frank sinatra all the way	47
go all the way	35
going all the way	28
jingle all the way	26
let go all the way	18
all the way down	14
all the way back	11
all the way by frank sinatra	8
all the way up	7
jingle all the way dvd	5
all the way home	3
celine dion all the way a decade of song	2
going all the way movie	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: All The Way

Language		Translations for "all the way"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		aina sieltä saakka (all the way from), pitkin matkaa (all the way through), perille saakka (all the way there), kotiin saakka (all the way home). (various references)

German		ringsherum (all around, all the way around, around, round), durchknöpfen (button all the way up). (various references)

Hungarian		végig az egész úton, egész úton. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遙遙 (from afar, over a great distance), 遙々 (from afar, over a great distance), 遥遥 (at a great distance, from afar), もし可能ならば (awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もろに (completely), はるばる (at a great distance, from afar, over a great distance). (various references)

Pig Latin		allay ethay ayway

Portuguese		todo caminho. (various references)

Turkish		yol boyunca (down the road). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: All The Way

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	usque. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: All The Way

Language	Date	Source	Jeremiah Chapter 48, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai hlqosan andreV apo sucem kai apo salhm kai apo samareiaV ogdohkonta andreV exurhmenoi pwgwnaV kai dierrhgmenoi ta imatia kai koptomenoi kai manaa kai libanoV en cersin autwn tou eisenegkein eiV oikon kuriou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Per ascensum enim Luaith plorans ascendet in fletu quoniam in descensu Oronaim hostes ululatum contritionis audierunt
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Bi the steying vp forsothe Luyth wepende steyede vp in weping, for in the going doun of Oronaym the enemys the yelling of to-treding herden.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For in the ascent of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the descent of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: All The Way

Language	Jeremiah Chapter 48, Verse 5
Cebuano	Kay sa pagsaka sa Luhit uban ang paghilak nga dayon, mosaka sila: kay sa pagkanaug sa Horonaim nadungog nila ang kagul-anan sa paghilak sa pagkalaglag;
Croatian	Da, uz brdo Luhit uspinju se plaèuæi. Da, niz obronke Horonajima razliježe se jauk nad propašæu.
Danish	Ak, grædende stiger de op ad Luhits Skråning; ak, på Vejen til Horonajim hører de Jammerskrig.
Dutch	Want in den opgang van Luhith zal geween bij geween opgaan, want in den afgang van Horonaim hebben Moabs wederpartijders een jammergeschrei gehoord.
Finnish	Luuhitin solatietä noustaan itkien, Hooronaimin rinteeltä kuuluu tuskan huuto hävityksen tähden.
French	Car on répand des pleurs � la montée de Luchith, Et des cris de détresse retentissent � la descente de Choronaïm.
German	denn sie gehen mit Weinen den Weg hinauf gen Luhith, und die Feinde hören ein Jammergeschrei den Weg von Horonaim herab:
Haitian Creole	Se dlo nan je y'ap moute lavil Loukit. Sou tout wout pou desann Owonayim, se gwo rèl pou malè ki rive yo!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Dengarlah suara tangis di jalan naik ke Luhit, dan suara ratapan di jalan turun ke Horonaim.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bukit-bukit Luhit dinaiki oranglah sambil menangis-nangis dan di lembah Horonayim kedengaranlah teriak yang putus-putus.
Maori	Ka haere hoki ratou ma te pikinga atu ki Ruhiti me te tangi haere tonu; no te mea i te heketanga ki Horonaimi kua rongo ratou i te mamae kino o te aue ki te whakangaromanga.
Norwegian	For gråtende går de opover bakken til Luhut; på veien ned til Horona'im høres angstfulle klagerop over ødeleggelsen.
Portuguese	Pois pela subida de Luíte eles vão subindo com choro contínuo; porque na descida de Horonaim, ouviram a angústia do grito da destruição.
Rumanian	Cqci kntr`un plkns necurmat suie suiwul Luhitului, wi se aud strigqte de durere la pogorkwul Horonaimului, din pricina nimicirii!``
Russian	оБ ЧПУИПЦ�"ЕОЙЙ Ч мХИЙФ � МБЮ ЪБ � МБЮЕН � П�"ОЙНБЕФУС; Й ОБ У� ХУЛЕ У пТПОБЙНБ ОЕ� ТЙСФЕМШ УМЩЫЙФ ЧП� МШ П ТБЪПТЕОЙЙ.
Spanish	Por la cuesta de Lujit sube con llanto continuo; por la bajada de Horonaim los enemigos oyen el clamor del quebranto.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: All The Way

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-l-l-t-w-y"
	-2 letters: hallway, wealthy.
	-3 letters: althea, hyetal, lately, lealty, lethal, wallah, wallet, wealth.
	-4 letters: alate, allay, alley, alway, ethyl, lathe, lathy, tally, telly, thewy, walla, wally, welly, wetly, whale, wheal, wheat.
	-5 letters: alae, ally, away, ayah, eath, haet, hale, hall, halt, hate, heal, heat, hell, hyla, hyte, late, lath, leal, tael, tala, tale, tall, teal, tela.
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