Saturday, May 5, 2012

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: by the way

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by the way
May 6th 2012, 01:45

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===Derived terms===
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'''Terms derived from the phrase ''by the way'''''
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*[[BTW]] or [[btw]] (initialism)
   
 

[[Category:English conjunctive adverbs]]

  

[[Category:English conjunctive adverbs]]

Latest revision as of 01:45, 6 May 2012

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[edit] English

[edit] Adverb

by the way (not comparable)

  1. (conjunctive, speech act, idiomatic) Incidentally; a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.
    His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.
    • 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2:
      [...] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.

[edit] Translations

incidentally

[edit] Derived terms

Terms derived from the phrase by the way
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