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head·way1

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–noun

1.	forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.

2.	progress in general: headway in a career.

3.	rate of progress: a slight headway against concerted opposition.

4.	the time interval or distance between two vehicles, as automobiles, ships, or railroad or subway cars, traveling in the same direction over the same route.

—Idiom

5.	make headway, to proceed forward; advance; progress.

[Origin: 1700–10; (a)head + way

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head·way2

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–noun

headroom (def. 2).

[Origin: 1700–10; head + way

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n.

Forward movement or the rate of forward movement, especially of a ship.
Progress toward a goal.
The clear vertical space beneath a ceiling or archway; clearance.
The distance in time or space that separates two vehicles traveling the same route.

c.1300, short for ahead-way; ultimately nautical (cf. leeway). Generalized sense of "motion forward" first attested 1748.

headway
noun
1.	vertical space available to allow easy passage under something [syn: headroom]
2.	forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale"