What's the difference between avenue and street?

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  • (n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.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.

Street


Definition:

  • (a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

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) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (3) The remain side have already targeted Johnson’s credibility in attacks that the Brexiters believe were orchestrated by Downing Street.
  • (4) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
  • (5) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
  • (6) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (7) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (8) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
  • (9) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
  • (10) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
  • (11) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (12) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (13) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
  • (14) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (15) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
  • (16) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (17) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
  • (18) A street market in Karm al-Shami, central Homs, last month.
  • (19) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (20) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.