(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.
Pier
Definition:
(n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
(n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
(n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(2) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
(3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(4) The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools.
(5) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
(6) You think that your experiences are anything compared to mine?” In response to the recording journalist, Piers Morgan tweeted: “This tape is outrageous.
(7) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
(8) "I ask because I saw Piers Morgan on TV suggesting that Arsenal were the best team ever because they went a season without losing.
(9) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
(10) "I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan.
(11) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(12) Jeremy’s older brother Piers – a self-employed weather forecaster – was a prime example.
(13) Is it any wonder that Piers Morgan has moved to the US?
(14) He would soon find strong allies in Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Italian left, who would sweep Italy off her feet, and in the German Social Democrats who would finally oust Angela Merkel from power.
(15) That wasn't a problem, as long as there was a high turnover of new initiates, all figuratively staggering out of Margate pier at six in the morning, convinced they had just discovered the future of music.
(16) Piers Morgan has spent a bitter week hitting out at his former CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, blaming the dismal ratings for Piers Morgan Tonight on Cooper’s poor lead-in.
(17) Because – and I hate to break this to Piers – if you are emasculated by the notion of a woman making her own reproductive choices, then you were never much of a man to begin with.
(18) What's always puzzled me about the charge sheet against Boris is the Piers Gaveston problem.
(19) Compared with the other designs, prostheses with nonrigid connectors at the pier exhibited greater apical and horizontal stress particularly with one-point loading on the pier.
(20) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.