The Collaborative International Dictionary
Three-way \Three"-way`\, a. Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Sexual activity involving three persons; a threesome; a ménage à trois. 2 A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti and cheese.
WordNet
adj. involving three parties or elements; "the triangular mother-father-child relationship"; "a trilateral agreement"; "a tripartite treaty"; "a tripartite division"; "a three-way playoff" [syn: triangular, trilateral, tripartite, three-party]
Usage examples of "three-way".
In the spacious anteroom are three-way floor-length mirrors, a long vanity with tissues and cotton balls and individual mirrors, dispensers for lotions and astringent cleansers, little squirt bottles of antistatic and hairspray, nail buffers, a vending machine dispensing individual vials of various scents at a cost per ounce as exorbitant as if it were Parisian perfume.
But more often they were three-way deals, cash at both ends and a trade in the middle: a consignment of Laotian teak marooned by bankruptcy in Singapore that they traded to the Poles for a warehouse of glass, which they sold on, strictly cash on delivery, to a discount warehouse in Chicago.
Shortly after that Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth embarked on a three-way collaboration to tease out the tangle of physical and neurophysiological factors involved in antiaircraft fire control.
I, Hugo Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune, Magus to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Sprout, Twelfth Dan Grand Master of the deadly art of Dimac, Logos of the Aeon, Lord of the Dance, King of the Jungle, snake-charmer, unicyclist, three-way cross-channel swimmer, Mr Lover Lover, Wild Colonial Boy, and one Hell of a Holy Guru, being of the soundest mind ever lodged within the human form and signed in my own hand in the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gothe, and our most Regal Majesty Victoria.
It would be better to conduct open, three-way negotiations, so that we could see what the Deorin were up to.
Three-way alcoves, thick with webbing on one side, had been burned clear on the other.
The dreaded red UGC beanie has been donned by an Eschaton game-master only once before, and that was over three years ago, when human input-error on EndStat tallies of aggregate SUFDDIR during a three-way SACPOP free-for-all yielded an apparent ignition of the earth's atmosphere.
The casting took shape with deceptive rapidity, disclosed what it was - the bonnet piece for an ordinary three-way nurse.
Beverly Crusher chimed in from the other screen on a three-way conference call.
Since leaving Beta Scuti XI he had replayed the first sixteen Super Bowls and rewritten every Sydney Greenstreet/Peter Lorre movie he could remember, and was just about to mentally referee a three-way shootout between Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, and Clint Eastwood (to even things up a bit, he had decided to make Eastwood wear a patch over his left eye), when suddenly the robot pilot applied the ship's braking mechanisms.
When at last the cast was removed from Shirleen's leg, Dahlia celebrated by taking the girl to Brown's for several pairs of new shoes, including black patent-leather ballerina flats of the kind all the girls were wearing, she charmed the salesgirls at Junior Miss, bringing in the shy, finger-sucking fifth grader who had to be coaxed into trying on spring jackets and coats, obstinately refusing to contemplate her image in the three-way mirrors.
I can spin, card, rett, Hallow and weave on the hand, frame, harp and Noble looms and I can knit if people start the wool on for me, I can read soil and rock, do carpentry up to the three-way mortise and tenon, predict weather by means of beastsign and skyreck, make increase in bees, brew five types of mead, make dyes and mordants and pigments, including a fast blue, I can do most types of whitesmithing, mend boots, cure and fashion most leathers, and if you have any goats I can look after them.
One small lamp, the three-way bulb set at the lowest wattage, didn't reject the shadows in the living loom, but romanced than, and in the kitchen, only the small light under the range hood slaved off the full embrace of darkness.
You know how that stuff has boomed-they just declared another three-way stock dividend.
Julian and I met in the rest room a few more times before we were interrupted by a store detective who, I am convinced, was interested in arranging a three-way.