Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: headway
IPA transcription: [h'ɛdw,eɪ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: headway, head
    Meaning: forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale"
  • Synonyms: headroom, headway, clearance
    Meaning: vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
Usage examples
  • The grotto party are making headway into the ice for our larder, but it is slow and very arduous work.
  • The Mayor said hopefully that the Petrograd regiments were ashamed of their actions; propaganda was making headway.
  • In the meanwhile we had been making headway at a good pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped but little water in the process.
  • And though the under-current clutched him and the weight of Mona taxed his strength, he managed to keep them both afloat and to make a little headway until the deepest part lay behind them.
  • It is because they are compelled to act without a reliable picture of the world, that governments, schools, newspapers and churches make such small headway against the more obvious failings of democracy, against violent prejudice, apathy, preference for the curious trivial as against the dull important, and the hunger for sideshows and three legged calves.