(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.
Gangway
Definition:
(v. i.) A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.
(v. i.) In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.
(v. i.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.
(v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Passengers will also benefit from free wifi, at-seat charging points, real-time information screens, air conditioning, and wider gangways and doors for quicker boarding.
(2) The street delimits different zones, with causal traffic at street level and hospital traffic between the wards and operating theatres and X-ray departments (which are collected in blocks in a central square) on gangways crossing the "street" at higher levels.
(3) Twelve hours after boarding the Leiv Eiriksson, the 11 activists who had occupied a gangway 80 ft above the water were forced down by a gale as the vessel entered Greek waters.
(4) As it was any spectators crammed into the gangways of court 16 expecting high courtroom drama will have left as many have before: baffled and generally wrung out by the mind-fuddling complexities of chancery proceedings.
(5) A gangway and glass panels are being built all the way round the central void, to give visitors the impression of walking on air, 57 metres above the ground.
(6) Unverified mobile phone footage showed chaotic scenes with scores of prisoners out of their cells shouting in gangways and walkways.
(7) As a prison doctor I’ve seen the crisis in jails – half the inmates shouldn’t be there | Gordon Cameron Read more Inmates flooded the jail’s gangways after the unrest broke out after 5pm on Sunday after staff were forced to retreat to “safe areas” within the jail.
(8) Where would my girls go?” At Tenderloin gay bar Gangway, which recently acquired new owners and is expected to soon close and transform into a new establishment, longtime manager Bob Ames, 58, said he hoped the gay community would continue to patronize the bar in its new form.
(9) Each arm of the maze is provided with a short blind alley and a long main gangway.
(10) This winter, The Gangway, the oldest gay bar in town, is closing down.
(11) Due to the complexity of the maze the rats keep patrolling the gangways without being rewarded for it.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bedford prison rioters shouting in jail gangways And then there are the inmates with mental health issues.
(13) Undaunted, the climbers made it to a gangway 80ft over the vessel's starboard stern.
(14) Armstrong's idea converts a long section of the deck of a ship into gangway, which attaches to the turbine and remains steady while the boat bobs up and down in the waves.
(15) In the blank faces of the stricken survivors being helped from the sea off Rhodes, or shuffling dazed down the gangway into a strange Sicilian port , they can only be imagined.
(16) From 100ft away in the pale dawn light it is a 15-storey industrial castle, bristling with cranes, derricks, gangways, chains, spars, girders, pipes, helipads and radar.
(17) The crew are well-trained, but some people will be running up and down the gangway.