What's the difference between alley and avenue?

Alley


Definition:

  • (n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
  • (n.) A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
  • (n.) A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
  • (n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
  • (n.) The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
  • (n.) A choice taw or marble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Defensively excellent, Sampson’s players persistently forced their opponents to construct their passing triangles down a series of cul-de-sacs and blind alleys.
  • (2) The animals, while still under the influence of the haloperidol, were then given six standard trials of running down the alley.
  • (3) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
  • (4) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
  • (5) As the report explains, researchers have long pointed to a widely believed cultural script of what constitutes a “real” rape – the trope of the lone lady being attacked at night as she made her way home through dark alleys.
  • (6) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
  • (7) His first serve is a memory and his forehand hits the doubles alley.
  • (8) The decision of entering the main alley depends on the "reference memory", of entering the alleys in the proper sequence, depends on the "working memory".
  • (9) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
  • (10) Testing consisted of a single trial per day during which latencies to leave the start box and to traverse the alley were recorded.
  • (11) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
  • (12) The open drain down his alley overflows with black sewage.
  • (13) after completion of infusion, each rat was placed in the maze and observed under "blind" conditions for number of errors (blind alleys entered) and latency to reach reward.
  • (14) (6) All unoperated cats committed alley-entrance errors as well as door-push errors suggesting that commission of alley-entrance errors may reflect a normal process in two-choice learning.
  • (15) Research and theory in the field is judged to be at a choice point: advance to interesting and important problems integrated with biobehavioral research or enter a blind alley of pseudo-problems derived from computer metaphors and cognitive folk psychology.
  • (16) Damage of areas containig nigrostriatal dopaminergic or ascending noradrenergic neurons had negligible effects on bar pressing, tail moving and alley running for hypothalamic stimulation.
  • (17) Rats had to enter and run down an alley for water reward.
  • (18) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
  • (19) Here, the decorticates showed difficulty both in learning to pull the ball out of the alley and in transferring to a push-type clearance response, but having transferred they coped well with subsequent reversals.
  • (20) More importantly, these experimental studies provide us a route (perhaps an escape route) from the blind-ending alleys of the current taxonomy of human malformations and place us squarely on the superhighway to understanding their pathogenesis.

Avenue


Definition:

  • (n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
  • (n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
  • (n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
  • (2) This program brings the most up-to-date therapy for the treatment of many cancers to the USAF and DOD and provides the avenues for further advances in cancer therapy in the decades to come.
  • (3) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
  • (4) By late afternoon, the intersection of North Avenue and Fulton Avenue had been turned into what one man – bottles of cognac in each hand – called an “open bar”.
  • (5) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
  • (6) Number 232, Santa Margarita Avenue, Menlo Park, California, looks like another ordinary house in another ordinary street.
  • (7) Public Law 92-603 is a mandata from the public for physicians to exercise every avenue of diagnosis and salvage for the nephritic patient.
  • (8) In recent days, protests in Istanbul against Russian involvement in Syria and Aleppo, including a demonstration in front of the Russian consulate on the city’s famed İstiklal Avenue, have occurred on a regular basis.
  • (9) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
  • (10) Inhibition of this futile cycling may represent one avenue by which energetic costs of maintenance and production can be lowered in ruminants.
  • (11) Authorities said the women, who disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, remembered leaving the confines of 2207 Seymour Avenue in west Cleveland only twice during their years in captivity.
  • (12) The hypothesis of visceral learning has opened a new avenue in the search for a pathway between psychosocial stimuli and physiological changes.
  • (13) Identification of the physiologic importance of these mediators in the heaves syndrome or other potential equine allergic syndromes may contribute both to the basic understanding of the pathogenesis of allergy, as well as suggest possible avenues for control.
  • (14) The Telling Project and Story Corps are creative avenues for stories like those to find an audience.
  • (15) He continues: “And a ‘no excuses’ culture where excellence is the norm.” Police were called by a member of the public shortly after 11am after reports of a disturbance outside the school in George V Avenue, where a number of parents and pupils had gathered.
  • (16) We will continue to pursue all avenues to get our journalists back, and are grateful for all the support we have received.
  • (17) This radical surgery, which removes the lower half of the body, is generally not performed until other avenues of treatment have been tried.
  • (18) Although successful biological research appears to be based on logical inference, on systematic accumulation of information, and on evaluation and hypothesis testing, many nonlogical, unpredictable factors may play an important role or even open new avenues of research.
  • (19) The NUJ also met on Tuesday to discuss "pursuing legal avenues" with the BBC over controversial changes to the corporation's pension scheme.
  • (20) The overall reduction in therapeutic ratio suggests that this avenue of clinical research should no longer be pursued and that such regimens should be adopted with caution for purposes of combining radiosensitizers or hyperthermia.