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one-way, a.
[f. one numeral a. + way n.1]
†1. Applied to a kind of bread (see quot.). Obs.
1620Venner Via Recta i. 18 Sometimes onely the grosser part of the bran is by a Searce separated from the meale, and a bread made of that which is sifted, called in some places One way bread. Ibid. (1650) 108 Why are Oysters usually eaten a little before meales, and that with one-way-bread?
2. Applied to a plough which can turn the furrows in one direction only. Also ellipt.
1884F. J. Lloyd Sci. Agric. 128 There is one other plough..called the ‘one-way’ or ‘turnwrest’ plough. 1886F. T. Elworthy West Somerset Word-Bk. 537 A two-way-zull, eens can plough vore and back in the same vore, is a handy thing like, but can't make such good work way un's can way a proper good one-way-zull. 1960Times 15 Feb. 19/2 A one-way plough much lighter in weight. 1965G. Shepherd West of Yesterday x. 77 We used a plough, for there was no ‘one-way’, as the modification of the disc plough was later named.
3. a. Leading, tending, pointing, thinking, or developing in one direction only.
1824M. Wilmot Let. 5 Feb. (1935) 206 Our one way life, dearest Alicia, gives me so little to say. 1928A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World 295 The notion evidently implies that something may be born into the world at the instant Here-Now, which has an influence extending throughout the future cone but no corresponding linkage to the cone of absolute past. The primary laws of physics do not provide for any such one-way linkage. 1938L. MacNeice Earth Compels 61 Endurance of one-way thinking. 1951Koestler Age of Longing i. 6 One-way pupils that took the light in, gave nothing out. Ibid. vii. 127 He put on the guarded, one-way gaze. 1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action i. 12 All reality, in fact, is evolution, in the perfectly proper sense that it is a one-way process in time. 1960Partridge Charm of Words 40 In a one-way dictionary, the explanations are made in the same language as that of the words defined. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising v. 48 Many intonation contrasts in English signal personal attitudes and contextual presuppositions which can scarcely apply to one-way public communication. 1973Australian 17 Dec. 16/7 Your child could be studying under a Miss Brooks at school and your spouse or boy-friend may well be a one-way baby (simply a term for self-centred emotional types). 1977Rep. Comm. Future of Broadcasting iii. 19 Broadcasting..is a one-way communication; viewers and listeners cannot question or express approval or disapproval.
b. spec. Of a ticket: entitling the holder to a journey in one direction only; ‘single’. Also fig.
1906Dialect Notes III. 148 Over three hundred negroes left Springfield, purchasing oneway tickets to many different towns. 1949L. Hughes (title) One-way ticket. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1464/2 One journalist..later earned himself further notoriety and a oneway ticket to Van Diemen's Land. 1976J. Lee Ninth Man 258 You've bought yourself a one-way ticket to obscurity. 1977Times 5 Oct. 17/8 On most days people are not having to queue to buy their one-way tickets to America at {pstlg}59 a head.
c. Of a thoroughfare: along which traffic is permitted in only one direction; of traffic: passing only in one direction; also, of or pertaining to such traffic. Also fig.
1914World's Work Aug. 302/1 Some little has already been done in the small streets off Piccadilly to request drivers to avoid some streets when going north and others when going south, thereby aiming at ‘one-way’ traffic, but there is no power to enforce the requests. Ibid. 304/1 Where streets are too narrow to permit of the rotary system the difficulty can be overcome by one-way streets. 1926Glasgow Herald 11 Sept. 9 A complaint has been heard from shop-keepers against the one-way system in certain streets. 1933[see clover-leaf s.v. clover n. 4]. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) xxi. 171 This is a one-way street. If someone plants something on you and you're innocent, you have no way in the world to prove it. 1959Daily Tel. 8 May 12 One-way study for London. Ibid., The pros and cons of proposals for one-way traffic. 1961[see dream n.2 1 b]. 1961L. van der Post Heart of Hunter iii. xv. 202 The European..tends to believe that the consequences are only for the primitive and that he..is immune from them. But actually there is no one-way traffic on these eventful occasions. 1963Traffic in Towns (Ministry of Transport) ii. 40/2 One-way streets and the elimination of right-hand turns have been the main features that have caught public attention. 1970P. Laurie Scotland Yard iv. 96 They put up temporary one-way signs, controlled junctions. 1972J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) xv. 105 Kearny entered town on one-way Howard Street. 1976Northumberland Gaz. 26 Nov. 19/9 It was virtually one-way traffic in the second half as Berwick kept the visitors pinned in their own area. Heslop and Renwick added further tries and Dudgeon kicked a further three penalty goals.
d. one-way pockets: the pockets of a miserly person. slang.
1926Maines & Grant Wise-Crack Dict. 11/2 One-way pockets, pockets of tightwad. 1961Wodehouse Service with Smile (1962) ix. 143 His one-way pockets are a by⁓word all over England.
e. Of a window, mirror, or the like: that permits vision from one side; transparent from one side only.
a1940F. Scott Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1949) ii. 31 Nowadays all chief executives have huge drawing rooms, but my father's was the first. It was also the first to have one-way glass in the big French windows. 1961W. Brown Bedeviled 40 Obscene exhibitions viewed through peepholes made of one-way glass. 1964F. Pohl in Galaxy Mag. Oct. 192/2 The cameras..that the studio people had activated for me behind every one-way mirror in the room. 1967C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post iii. 27 What looked like a dirty bit of glass was a one-way window. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVIII. 153 Further, Ss [sc. subjects] were observed during the experiment through the one-way mirror for any reactions. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Mar. 241/2 Two of Dizzy's aristocratic sprigs jostle at a one-way mirror watching the most high-minded statesman of all trying to reclaim a tart.
4. Electr. Of a switch or the like: providing only one possible path for current.
1896W. P. Maycock Electr. Lighting (ed. 3) I. v. 113 Fig. 49 shows a simple or one-way switch. 1925O. Rankin Switches in Wireless Circuits 56 Two ordinary ‘one-way’, or ‘bell switches’, A and B, are used to effect the usual series-parallel switching of the A.T.C. 1965P. Honey Planning Electricity in House iii. 71 Wall switches are available in one-way and two-way types, the latter being used for the control of lights from two different points (e.g. on staircases). |