EXAMPLES | WORD ORIGIN | IDIOMS noun forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
progress in general: headway in a career.
rate of progress: a slight headway against concerted opposition.
the time interval or distance between two vehicles, as automobiles, ships, or railroad or subway cars, traveling in the same direction over the same route.
Idioms make headway , to proceed forward; advance; progress.
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Origin of headway 1 First recorded in
1700–10; (a)head +
way1 Origin of headway 2 First recorded in
1700–10; head +
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anabasis Examples from the Web for headway Contemporary Examples of headway McCain and Graham also had a long meeting with Burns Tuesday, but McCain declined to say whether Burns was making any headway .
He was performing the task during a royal visit to Headway , a charity that helps people with brain injuries.
We've both been struggling with unemployment and underemployment, and we're just now starting to make some headway .
Even as U.S./NATO forces make some headway here and there, little comes in behind them to solidify gains.
Even Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has made some headway here.
Historical Examples of headway For a time he had seemed to make no headway against his hill-born appetite.
Would we—make any—headway , sir, with the schooner's—light machinery?
Over on Iverak the Serbians had succeeded in making some headway .
With the people of the country of her adoption, whether Jews or Moors, she made no headway .
The headway of the skiff was slow, but my efforts were not silent.
British Dictionary definitions for headway noun motion in a forward direction the vessel made no headway
progress or rate of progress he made no headway with the problem
the distance or time between consecutive trains, buses, etc, on the same route
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Word Origin and History for headway n. c.1300, "main road, highway," from Old English heafodweg (see head (adj.) + way ). Sense of "motion forward" first attested 1748, short for ahead-way ; ultimately nautical (cf. leeway ).
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