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One-way   /wˈənwˈeɪ/   Listen
One-way

adjective
1.
Moving or permitting movement in one direction only.  "A one-way ticket"



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"One-way" Quotes from Famous Books



... The love of a pure, good woman and the one-way pocket—that's what makes the millionaires. Besides, look ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... there's no hurry about that. Most of us are sure of a free one-way pass to that port some time or other, 'cording to the parson's tell. See here, Jones; let's look at this thing like a couple of men, not children. You don't want to keep chasing that girl from pillar to post, making her more ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
... one of our more difficult cases. But he's coming along nicely." Dr. Moran pointed through the one-way window. ...
— Final Weapon • Everett B. Cole
... exists largely as a vehicle for the jeux d'esprit of the Brass Lids. It is a one-way affair, working only from the inside out, for if you have a trifle of repartee to impart to the Brazen Ones the apparatus is either indefinitely engaged, or Na poo (as the French say). If you are one of these bulldog lads and are determined to make the thing talk from the outside in, you ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 8, 1917 • Various
... radio connection between a satellite and an earth station permitting communication between them, either one-way (down link from satellite to earth station - television receive-only transmission) or two-way ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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