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two-way
[ too-wey ]
adjective
- providing for or allowing movement in opposite directions, or both to and from a place:
two-way traffic.
- allowing or entailing communication or exchange between two persons, groups, countries, etc.
- involving two parties or participants, as a relationship or agreement; two-sided:
a two-way race for the nomination.
- entailing responsibilities, obligations, etc., on both such parties.
- capable of both receiving and sending signals:
a two-way radio.
- capable of being used in two ways.
two-way
adjective
- moving, permitting movement, or operating in either of two opposite directions
two-way traffic
a two-way valve
- involving two participants
a two-way agreement
- involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
a two-way process
- (of a radio, telephone, etc) allowing communications in two directions using both transmitting and receiving equipment
Word History and Origins
Origin of two-way1
Example Sentences
What pundits think, however, is that this is a two-way race between Breaking Bad and True Detective.
The Delle Donnas retorted that their friendship with Medrano was a two-way street.
Two-way trade with the U.S. alone had grown to $7.3 billion.
The agent had a two-way radio connecting him with other agents downtown.
The revelations from Snowden provide evidence that such hacking is a two-way street.
Fasten a double or two-way spirit level on the front left-hand corner.
But here were officers, doctors, an ambulance, all ordered in advance by two-way airplane radio.
It is a two-way process in which two or more people discuss meanings that concern them.
Such a transfer line is called a two-way line or a single-track line, because traffic over it may be in either direction.
The first and simplest of these methods is to employ so-called two-way trunks.
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