What is "milky way"

Milky \Milk"y\, a.

1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.

   Pails high foaming with a milky flood.
   --Pope.

2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. ``Milky juice.''
   --Arbuthnot.

3. Yielding milk. ``Milky mothers.''
   --Roscommon.

4. Mild; tame; spiritless.

   Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
   --Shak.

   Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.

Way \Way\, n. [OE. wey, way, AS. weg; akin to OS., D., OHG., & G. weg, Icel. vegr, Sw. v["a]g, Dan. vei, Goth. wigs, L. via, and AS. wegan to move, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. [root]136. Cf. Convex, Inveigh, Vehicle, Vex, Via, Voyage, Wag, Wagon, Wee, Weigh.]

1. That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. ``To find the way to heaven.''
   --Shak.

   I shall him seek by way and eke by street.
   --Chaucer.

   The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
   --Milton.

   The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
   --Evelyn.

2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.

   And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail.
   --Longfellow.

3. A moving; passage; procession; journey.

   I prythee, now, lead the way.
   --Shak.

4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.

   If that way be your walk, you have not far.
   --Milton.

   And let eternal justice take the way.
   --Dryden.

5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.

   My best way is to creep under his gaberdine.
   --Shak.

   By noble ways we conquest will prepare.
   --Dryden.

   What impious ways my wishes took!
   --Prior.

6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.

7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. ``Having lost the way of nobleness.''
   --Sir. P. Sidney.

   Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
   --Prov. iii. 17.

   When men lived in a grander way.
   --Longfellow.

8. Sphere or scope of observation.
   --Jer. Taylor.

   The public ministers that fell in my way.
   --Sir W. Temple.

9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.

10. (Naut.)

    1. Progress; as, a ship has way.

    2. pl. The timbers on which a ship is launched.

11. pl. (Mach.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.

12. (Law) Right of way. See below. By the way, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though connected with, the main object or subject of discourse. By way of, for the purpose of; as being; in character of. Covert way. (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered. In the family way. See under Family. In the way, so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc. In the way with, traveling or going with; meeting or being with; in the presence of. Milky way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1. No way, No ways. See Noway, Noways, in the Vocabulary. On the way, traveling or going; hence, in process; advancing toward completion; as, on the way to this country; on the way to success. Out of the way. See under Out. Right of way (Law), a right of private passage over another's ground. It may arise either by grant or prescription. It may be attached to a house, entry, gate, well, or city lot, as well as to a country farm. --Kent. To be under way, or To have way (Naut.), to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move. To give way. See under Give. To go one's way, or To come one's way, to go or come; to depart or come along. --Shak. To go one's way to proceed in a manner favorable to one; -- of events. To come one's way to come into one's possession (of objects) or to become available, as an opportunity; as, good things will come your way. To go the way of all the earth or to go the way of all flesh to die. To make one's way, to advance in life by one's personal efforts. To make way. See under Make, v. t. Ways and means.

    1. Methods; resources; facilities.

    2. (Legislation) Means for raising money; resources for revenue.

       Way leave, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng]

       Way of the cross (Eccl.), the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See Station, n., 7

    3. .

       Way of the rounds (Fort.), a space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town.

       Way pane, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.]

       Way passenger, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel.

       Ways of God, his providential government, or his works.

       Way station, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad.

       Way train, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train.

       Way warden, the surveyor of a road.

       Syn: Street; highway; road.

       Usage: Way, Street, Highway, Road. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements.

       All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray.
       --Spenser.

       There is but one road by which to climb up.
       --Addison.

       When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
       --Milton.

late 14c., loan-translation of Latin via lactea; see galaxy. Also in Middle English Milky Cercle. The ancients speculated on what it was; some guessed it was a vast assemblage of stars (Democrates, Pythagoras, even Ovid). Galileo, after inventing the telescope, reported that the whole of it was resolvable into stars. Old native names for it include Jacob's Ladder, the Way to St. James's, and Watling Street.

The Milky Way bar is a chocolate bar manufactured and distributed by the Mars confectionery company. The American version of the Milky Way bar is made of chocolate- malt nougat topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate and sold as the Mars bar everywhere else. The global Milky Way is a different chocolate bar similar to the American 3 Musketeers.

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.

Milky Way may also refer to:

There are many myths and legends about the origin of the Milky Way, the crowd of stars that makes a distinctive bright streak across the night sky.

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name "milky" is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars cannot be distinguished by the naked eye. The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the Latin , from the Greek (, "milky circle"). From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610. Until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the Universe. Following the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies—now estimated to number as many as 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy that has a diameter usually considered to be about 100,000–120,000 light-years but may be 150,000–180,000 light-years. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars. There are likely at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. The Solar System is located within the disk, about 27,000 light-years from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust called the Orion Arm. The stars in the inner ≈10,000 light-years form a bulge and one or more bars that radiate from the bulge. The very center is marked by an intense radio source, named Sagittarius A*, which is likely to be a supermassive black hole.

Stars and gases at a wide range of distances from the Galactic Center orbit at approximately 220 kilometers per second. The constant rotation speed contradicts the laws of Keplerian dynamics and suggests that much of the mass of the Milky Way does not emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation. This mass has been termed " dark matter". The rotational period is about 240 million years at the position of the Sun. The Milky Way as a whole is moving at a velocity of approximately 600 km per second with respect to extragalactic frames of reference. The oldest stars in the Milky Way are nearly as old as the Universe itself and thus likely formed shortly after the Dark Ages of the Big Bang.

The Milky Way has several satellite galaxies and is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which is a component of the Virgo Supercluster, which is itself a component of the Laniakea Supercluster.

"Milky Way" is a song by Syd Barrett from the outtakes/rarities album Opel. The song was recorded on 7 June 1970, and produced by Barrett's friend and former bandmate David Gilmour. It was one of eight then-unreleased tracks to be released on Opel.

Milky Way Chocolate Spread was a brand of spread. It was distributed in the United States by Liberty Richter of Saddle Brook, New Jersey and distributed internationally by Masterfoods Polska Sp. ZO,O, Kozuski Parcel, a division of Mars Incorporated.

Milky Way is a 2000 Bosnian film directed by Faruk Sokolović.

The Milky Way is a col situated between the southernmost extremity of the LeMay Range and the Planet Heights mountain range, in the eastern part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is the highest point on a possible sledging route between Jupiter Glacier and Uranus Glacier. The col was first mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947–48, by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. It was named after the Milky Way by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from association with the nearby Planet Heights and the glaciers which are named for the planets of the Solar System.