(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.
Neighbourhood
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(2) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(3) The authors are of the opinion that the processes occurring in the neighbourhood of the traumatic skin wound can be influenced and that regeneration can be regulated.
(4) They strongly suggest that the ADP-carrier comes to the close neighbourhood of the ATP synthetase on the matrix side of the inner membrane.
(5) Above 1.0 mol%, the PY molecules reside preferentially in the neighbourhood of the glyceryl moiety region of the PC vesicles.
(6) What I saw Aid workers speak out about mental health: 'I was afraid they would think I couldn't handle it' Read more The first place I visited was Nyamirambo, a neighbourhood in the south-west part of Kigali.
(7) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(8) With its steep hills and cobblestones, the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Ouro Preto isn’t an easy place to play football.
(9) Other factors such as gender, marital status and the presence of children, relatives and friends in the neighbourhood had no association with loneliness.
(10) With the number of childless elderly persons increasing, such systems would partially compensate for the lack of family assistance through neighbourhood and other forms of self-support.
(11) While Bloomberg has defended his record, pointing out that New York city has 22 of the state's best 25 public schools, others have said those schools are predominantly in wealthy neighbourhoods or are difficult for students to get into.
(12) The majority of these were household contacts of kala-azar patients, and the remainder came from the close neighbourhood.
(13) Our basic finding was a conformational change in LC-2 deficient myosin detected at 18 degrees C. It was not observed in intact myosin suggesting that the dissociation of the regulatory light chain resulted in a local structural change in the neighbourhood of the attached label in the 20 kD domain.
(14) Police arrested her in September in a raid on a club on Iracema beach, a crowded neighbourhood packed with lively restaurants, hotels and bars.
(15) He recommended that skilled police officers be paid up to £2,000 more than they are now, and said a new expertise and professional accreditation allowance of £1,200 would be introduced for most detectives, firearms, public order and neighbourhood policing teams.
(16) Inflammatory parameters are definitely involved, and the nosological neighbourhood to angylosing spondylitis is discussed.
(17) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
(18) Since 2008 a massive public security "pacification" campaign has allowed police to regain control of dozens of neighbourhoods which had been off-limits to the authorities for years.
(19) Lieutenant General Abdel Wahab al-Saadi said his forces secured the largely agricultural southern neighbourhood of Naymiya, under cover of US-led coalition airstrikes, and are poised to enter the main city.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.