What's the difference between aisle and basilica?

Aisle


Definition:

  • (n.) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
  • (n.) Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.
  • (n.) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
  • (2) As long as politicians like McConnell, Cuomo and Faulconer see a closed-door ballroom of billionaires as their base, they aren’t likely to vote to raise the minimum wage, in Congress or in the statehouses, on the left side of the aisle or the right.
  • (3) Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Kick the Bride Down the Aisle and The Bullfighter Dies: track titles like thse could only come from the new Morrissey album.
  • (4) Personally, I’m still more cross about toy cars in the tomatoes aisle than I am about ads in a children’s app that I can choose not to install.
  • (5) In aviator shades and dressed all in black, bar the Gucci logo on his T-shirt, Diddy is famous enough to turn heads even among the hip and wealthy visitors milling up and down the aisles.
  • (6) In tangentially fractured specimens, the cleavage plane jumps back and forth from the plasma membrane to a disk-bilayer, thereby giving rise to the known phenomenon of EF-ridges (on the extracellular fracture face) and PF-grooves (in the plasmatic fracture face) which both represent the level of the plasma membrane sur- or subjacent to the aisles between disks.
  • (7) If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again… I go in another direction."
  • (8) As Texas residents prepared for what one hardware store manager called "ice Friday", schools started canceling classes and thousands of shoppers jammed store aisles to buy milk, pet food and other supplies.
  • (9) At this time of year a large number of shops fill their aisles with extra displays which makes it hard to move around.
  • (10) They will speculate about creating an insect aisle at the supermarket and fast-food restaurants that serve bug burgers.
  • (11) Screaming toddlers, long queues and heavy shopping bags – just a few of the reasons to avoid setting foot in a supermarket aisle and do the weekly shop online.
  • (12) "Last month I saw a kid shit in the produce aisle of our Chengdu Walmart," a young woman named Bridget told me.
  • (13) But never before has a new bishop walked down the aisle at her consecration ceremony flanked by her husband.
  • (14) The group goes on to closes 500 unprofitable stores and revamps others with wider aisles and better lighting.
  • (15) One charge that wouldn't seem to stick to McConnell, now, is that he can't work across the aisle.
  • (16) People on both the liberal and conservative side of the aisle supported the bill.
  • (17) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
  • (18) The lexicon for most retailers runs from impulse buy to splurge to treat; they prefer us to wander the aisles with our eyes wide open and our minds shut tight.
  • (19) Aldi has vowed to maintain the supermarket price war that has drawn legions of cost-conscious shoppers to its aisles as it announced a 65% increase in its UK profits.
  • (20) Aisling Twomey, a spokeswoman for the Dublin-based Roma and Irish Traveller rights group, said: "This specific case could be used as a means to target the Roma community when the reality is that they are one of the most marginalised communities, not just in Ireland, but worldwide.

Basilica


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
  • (n.) A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.
  • (n.) A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.
  • (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi blessing from St Peter’s Basilica.
  • (2) The basilica was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and, at the end of the 13th century, Pietro Cavallini embellished the apse with six mosaic panels of scenes from the life of Mary.
  • (3) When the sun made an appearance mid-morning, it threw a spotlight on the spire of the Saint-Michel basilica and the honey-coloured buildings that face the sweeping curve of the broad river.
  • (4) On a June morning, Father Rob Yaksich, a park ranger until he found his calling in mid-life as a Catholic priest, presided over his first ever Sunday Mass at the historic Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis in Santa Fe, New Mexico .
  • (5) Black smoke rising from the chapel's chimney signifies an inconclusive vote (traditionally damp straw was added to make the smoke black but a chemical compound is now used instead); white smoke – and the pealing of the basilica's bell to avoid any confusion about the colour of the smoke – means that a new pope has been elected.
  • (6) The basilica was turned into an imperial mosque under the Ottomans when they conquered the city in 1453, and converted into a museum after the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923.
  • (7) Pogrund and cameraman Dewald Aukema pick up not only the whirlwind nature of that first head-of-state visit, but the exotic and breathtaking beauty of Africa and Mandela's buttoned lip as he visits the lavish basilicas built by despots on the land of the poor.
  • (8) A 150-metre-high, flat-topped pyramid would be taller than St Paul's Cathedral or St Peter's Basilica and would overshadow the Great Pyramid of Giza – creating Abu Dhabi's answer to Egypt's pyramids or Mecca's Kaaba.
  • (9) The government says we’re at war.” Didi Wafae, 63, who lives a few streets away from the raid, added: “People are really scared.” Djamila Khaldi, a 54-year-old cleaner who lives near the St-Denis basilica, which draws vast numbers of tourists each year, said: “I heard the shots and I just thought, there must be some kind of standoff, terrorists must be hiding here.
  • (10) The catheter that was 4 cm too deep was inserted via the V. basilica.
  • (11) While few in Germany or Italy would openly pay tribute to Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini, on Friday Franco supporters from across the country and beyond will gather for a mass at the Spanish dictator’s grave in the basilica at the Valley of the Fallen, the imposing complex carved into the granite mountains near Madrid.
  • (12) The Colosseum still stands, the Trevi fountain still sparkles and 91 former Popes still rest peacefully in their tombs at St Peter's Basilica.
  • (13) It's white smoke and the bells in St Peter's Basilica are ringing.
  • (14) • Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30, +39 06 802 41281, auditorium.com Santa Maria in Trastevere Santa Maria in Trastevere Photograph: Alamy The Basilica of Our Lady is among Rome's oldest places of worship, and the one that perhaps gives the most vivid impression of a grand medieval church.
  • (15) He then goes to the balcony over the main door of St Peter's basilica, and is introduced to the world as the new pope before giving his blessing to the waiting crowd.
  • (16) We were treated like VIPs, given a tour of the Vatican and the Basilica and dined with the seminarians after the game.
  • (17) Cardinals, many of whom were massed on the steps of St Peter's basilica alongside Benedict on Wednesday, will then begin consultations ahead of a conclave to choose a successor.
  • (18) Welby, who will be accompanied by his wife, Caroline, will visit the tomb of St Peter beneath the Basilica before stopping to pray at the tomb of Pope John Paul II.
  • (19) Cardinal Peter Turkson at the holy mass at St Peter's Basilica yesterday.
  • (20) Built in 1955 with a capacity of 40,000, the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida – the principal patroness of Brazil and a unifying figure for many in the nation's Catholic Church.