What's the difference between alley and wynd?

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.

Wynd


Definition:

  • (n.) A narrow lane or alley.

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