What's the difference between alleyway and narrow?

Alleyway


Definition:

  • (n.) An alley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years after the revolution began I am touring the alleyways of Saraqeb with a group of young men counting their dead.
  • (2) A rapist is not necessarily a violent man with a knife down a dark alleyway.
  • (3) She took me through the recently built but struggling “theatre district” with its dismal alleyways and closed nightclub.
  • (4) The traditional courtyard homes, or siheyuan, that line the city’s hutong alleyways were arranged according to the “duties of obligation” between family members.
  • (5) The magnificent gigantic sprawl of the Edinburgh festival fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world, is once again set to swamp every spare stage, school hall, pub back room and alleyway in the Scottish capital, this year featuring 49,497 performances of 3,193 shows in 299 venues.
  • (6) lion67 Mix it in Melbourne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bar Americano Hidden in an alleyway off an alleyway in Melbourne’s CBD, the wonderful staff at Bar Americano mixed me the best drink I’ve ever had in my life, and then swiftly followed it with an even better one.
  • (7) In a second experiment, sham-operated and decorticate rats were first shaped to pull the ball clear from the alleyway, and then required to adopt a push-type clearance response when movement of the ball towards the start box was prevented.
  • (8) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
  • (9) Pih said the artist had reinstalled the work especially for Tate, adding a 2013 touch: a woman's shoe he found down a Liverpool alleyway – "a residue of a night out".
  • (10) Rise in the streets, in the schools, on the buses, in your homes, in the dark alleyways, in the offices and factories and fishing boats and fields.
  • (11) They live in abandoned, rubble-strewn houses and slip through alleyways to avoid sniper bullets.
  • (12) The same four alleyways in New York are used over and over again, perpetuating the same tired cliche And yet today, film-makers instead simply treat it as a backlot set, a blank slate to create whatever version of amusement park best fits a script.
  • (13) In a quiet alleyway in Tripoli's old city, a 33-year-old man said he had a rebel flag hidden at home, waiting for the day when Gaddafi goes.
  • (14) The effect of visual distracting stimuli upon the straight alleyway performance of dorsal hippocampectomized Wistar rats was investigated.
  • (15) Roughly speaking.” The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had In Edinburgh in the late 90s I went to a barber’s I had always gone to, in an alleyway off Cockburn Street, run by an old Italian man, but he wasn’t there, and in his place were two threatening, scowling young men.
  • (16) "If you're chasing critters up and down alleyways, you're missing the point," he said.
  • (17) It also unveiled the Street View Trekker , a bulky backpack with several 15-megapixel cameras protruding on a stalk, so that operatives can capture "offroad" imagery from hiking trails, narrow alleyways or the forest floor.
  • (18) Responses to male conspecific odors (soiled bedding) presented in an alleyway were compared among five groups of adult male albino house mice with different rearing histories.
  • (19) I think they worked out we weren't going to follow them off down the alleyways, and for me that was a complete no-no, as the one thing I wanted to avoid was another Keith Blakelock [the officer killed in the Tottenham riot of 1985].
  • (20) Behind their heads, the small window opened on to the narrow, dark alleyway that for 26 months has been one of the Australian's only views.

Narrow


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
  • (superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  • (superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
  • (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
  • (superl.) Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
  • (superl.) Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  • (superl.) Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  • (superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
  • (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
  • (v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
  • (v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
  • (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
  • (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
  • (v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
  • (v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
  • (2) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (3) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
  • (4) In all immunized rabbits the antisera obtained with the 7 alpha-derivative had a higher affinity and a narrower specificity than the antiserum obtained with the 7 beta-derivative.
  • (5) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (6) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (7) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
  • (8) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
  • (9) The linewidths of the methionine Cepsilon resonances are narrowed by increasing temperature according to an Arrhenius energy of activation of nearly 3 kcal.
  • (10) The detergent lauryl maltoside abolishes respiratory control and proton ejection by cytochrome c oxidase-containing proteoliposomes over a narrow concentration range.
  • (11) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
  • (12) However, the narrow range of the ED50 suggests relatively little variation in the response of the different isolates in vivo and similarly small variation was also noted in some of the tests in vitro.
  • (13) Eight patients had glaucoma only in one eye; three narrow-angle glaucoma, three primary open-angle glaucoma and two secondary glaucoma.
  • (14) In the fifth case the vein was too narrow to allow catheterization.
  • (15) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
  • (16) Each border was within a region of 11 nucleotides and gave rise to a narrow size range (1248-1261 nucleotides) for the population of 22 subgenomic DNAs.
  • (17) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
  • (18) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (19) These three activities, appearing within a narrow range of molecular weights, different from those of other known lymphokines, suggest the existence of a distinct class of lymphokine mediators with the common function of influencing functional properties of tumor cells.
  • (20) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.