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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-way
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a one-way street (=in which you can only drive in one direction)
▪ He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
a one-way ticket (also a single ticket British English) (= a ticket to a place but not back again)
▪ I bought a one-way ticket to London.
one-way mirror
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mirror
▪ Video and one-way mirrors allow designers to see how their systems stand up in practice.
▪ No, he thought, like an investigator in the dark, surveying his subject through a one-way mirror.
▪ During his 10-minute absence, the pair were videotaped through a one-way mirror.
▪ At the bottom a one-way mirror gave him a view of the corridor outside.
street
▪ Within each quarter there are selected road closures and some one-way streets, making journeys even more circuitous for non-residents.
▪ This is not a one-way street.
▪ Ballymena Division Warden Street, Ballymena - single lane traffic on existing one-way street.
▪ And so, with a sigh, he pulled out of the driveway, then stared down the narrow one-way street.
▪ He crossed the one-way street and entered the front door by the side of the kiosk.
▪ Xeurons are normally one-way streets, but occasionally they can be forced into working backward.
▪ Eliminating one-way streets negates their effect of increasing speeds and necessary distances travelled.
system
▪ The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island, surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.
▪ I weighed in on Monday, got blood pressured, then drove through blinding rain into the Guildford one-way system.
▪ The first option involved simply eliminating through traffic, principally through the use of one-way systems.
▪ Unfortunately to get there I had to negotiate an amazingly convoluted one-way system.
▪ Moreover, if one-way systems are introduced, cycle use is discouraged and safety is decreased by the increased vehicle speeds.
▪ The one-way systems round here can be pretty confusing.
▪ Enter the one-way system and take the third right into Catherine Street, Percy Street being your second left turning.
ticket
▪ The one-way ticket thus cost me £29.50.
▪ A dry, uninteresting opening point will surely be a one-way ticket to the wastebasket for your document.
▪ And without more ado he booked his one-way ticket.
▪ It is a one-way ticket to riches for the individual and a one-way ticket to poverty for the village.
▪ I enclose the one-way ticket counterfoil as proof of purchase, and look forward to hearing from you.
▪ It is a one-way ticket to riches for the individual and a one-way ticket to poverty for the village.
▪ And desire and dedication are easier to come by when the alternative is a one-way ticket back to the ghetto.
traffic
▪ The idea of one-way traffic is as foreign to Grandma as outer space.
▪ This is not quite so true of historic, international centres of knowledge with one-way traffic systems.
▪ Additionally, there are occasional examples of cycle lanes being carried in streets against the flow of one-way traffic systems.
▪ Certain kinds of one-way traffic, certain kinds of one-way street, are in the end not hard to negotiate.
▪ They are really one-way traffic systems in which several streams of vehicles can mix and circulate in a clockwise direction only.
▪ It wasn't all one-way traffic across the border.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
one-way traffic
▪ a one-way street
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And whatever happens, after May 3 they're predicting a mad scramble for one-way only tickets.
▪ Ballymena Division Warden Street, Ballymena - single lane traffic on existing one-way street.
▪ But it is, in a sense, a one-way process.
▪ The electronic one-way communication system is more than just a lock system.
▪ This book is unlikely to go the one-way journey of most borrowed books.
▪ This will not be a matter of one-way giving, even though the suburban church has most of the material resources.
▪ Too many managers act as though language were more of a one-way phenomenon.
▪ Xeurons are normally one-way streets, but occasionally they can be forced into working backward.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-way

one-way \one-way\ adj.

  1. Legally permitting movement or travel in one direction only; -- of paths, especially roads; as, one-way streets.

  2. (Transportation) Pertaining to or valid for transportation in one direction between two points; as, a one-way ticket; a one-way fare. Opposed to round-trip.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one-way

1906, in reference to travel tickets; 1914 in reference to streets; 1940 in reference to windows, mirrors, etc.; from one + way (n.).

Wiktionary
one-way

a. 1 allowing movement in only one direction 2 allowing travel in only one direction

WordNet
one-way

adj. moving or permitting movement in one direction only; "one-way streets"; "a one-way ticket"

Wikipedia
One-way

One-way or one way may refer to:

  • One-way traffic, a street either facilitating only one-way traffic, or designed to direct vehicles to move in one direction
  • One-way function, a function that is easy to compute on every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input
  • One-way encryption, in computer science
  • One-way mirror, a glass through which one can see only in one way
  • Single-use or disposable products

One Way may refer to:

One-Way (novel)

One-Way is a 1994 novel by the French writer Didier Van Cauwelaert. It received the Prix Goncourt. It was adapted into the 2001 film Un aller simple, directed by Laurent Heynemann.

Usage examples of "one-way".

He had lived in it himself before Alvarado had found it expedient to give him a one-way ticket abroad.

Was it any more preposterous to assume that Old Conc was merely a clever Xican than a lone one-way traveler from far distant Earth?

They were probably also what had convinced Old Conc to gamble his one-way, one-shot flight on this particular extrasolar system.

We could barely afford the thirty-year-old Mercury that Dak and I were always rescuing from a one-way trip to the junkyard.

Cathy -- in the emergency suite beside External Hall, whose gate Louise has made one-way.

Those Numerary fellas seem to be dug in deep and I had the impression that it was a one-way street.

To take Clyde Burke for a one-way ride was the first suggestion that Ricordo ignored.

The view that the Polynesians settled their distant islands at the time they discovered them by unnavigated one-way voyages is both simple and realistic.

He went into a ticket office, paid four hundred monits for a one-way trip to Earth, and emerged into a lounge which provided a panoramic view of the myriad ships actually landing and taking off.

The alien morphologists who had been monitoring it through the one-way glass of the control booth fronting on the examination stage that formed the escape-proof study chamber had been turned away only a few seconds, accepting mugs of steaming stimulant-laced coffee from a Tech 3.

The blue boxes were one-way only, because transporting a life-form required considerably more power than receiving one.

From another pocket of the case he pulled out a one-way ticket on Philippines Airline Flight 434 from Manila to Cebu City in the southern Philippines.

He had noticed, he said, that drivers sometimes traveled north on Cienega Street, although the signs indicate it is a one-way thoroughfare for southbound traffic only.

So, rather than syphilis being a counterexample of the generally one-way course of epidemic disease, it confirms that the development of epidemics requires social conditions typical of overcrowded civilization.

Jadaira banked sharply to pursue him, and switched to an emergency signal downlink used only to transmit one-way distress calls.