part-way, adv.
(ˌpɑːtˈweɪ)
Also part way, partway.
[part adv. c.]
Part of the way; a certain distance along the way; to some extent; partly.
| 1859 Mrs. Gaskell Lett. (1966) 530 Flossy is gone to school..at Knutsford. I took her part way on Tuesday last. 1875 Kinglake Crimea V. iv. ii. 70 He moved some battalions part-way towards the frowning Sapounè Heights. 1930 Blunden De Bello Germanico 15 Half-ruined houses, with sacks stretched partway over some windows. 1954 Essays in Crit. July 320 It is unbearable for a man or woman to be faced with anything less than a person—and thus, tragically, even part-way unbearable to be faced only with other human persons, where the personal relationship is inevitably enmeshed in material situations. 1968 C. Helmericks Down Wild River North i. ii. 22 Starting off toward Billings, we learned partway there that the road was blocked. 1976 I. Levin Boys from Brazil i. 34 He stopped and rewound part-way and replayed a few bits. 1978 Sci. Amer. Feb. 68/1 When a peg is partway into a hole, it can wobble back and forth a good deal farther than the clearance itself. |