What's the difference between corridor and passageway?

Corridor


Definition:

  • (n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
  • (n.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
  • (2) This has shown that, in spite of higher dose rates in the corridor areas because of the use of an MDR system and the increase in interstitial techniques, the doses to ward nurses have been significantly reduced by encouraging staff to comply with the ALARA principle and the introduction of afterloading systems.
  • (3) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
  • (4) He said a two-and-half-year analysis by the government's Foresight programme on the implications for coastal defences had more impact in the corridors of power than any other research on the effects of climate change that he presented.
  • (5) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
  • (6) Ukraine map An aide to Ukraine's interior minister posted on Facebook that rebels had begun surrendering in some areas of Kiev's "anti-terrorist operation", and the newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda reported that some rebels were asking for a corridor to put down their arms and leave areas surrounded by government forces.
  • (7) Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan’s planning minister, said the trade corridor project would tie the two countries’ economies together.
  • (8) The inspectors were also told that the day before their August inspection a patient with a known heart problem had a cardiac arrest in a corridor while waiting for a first clinical assessment.
  • (9) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
  • (10) "Real negotiations are taking place in all those little corridors … it's a very intense week."
  • (11) The country's president, Dilma Rousseff, rode a bus to mark Sunday's official opening of a $700m (£417m) bus corridor for quickly moving people between the airport and subway stations in the western part of the city.
  • (12) Thursday, a corridor somewhere near the press gallery.
  • (13) Only then can discussions about who should fill the new treaty-created post of EU president move from the corridors into the negotiating room, probably at a special gathering of EU leaders late next month.
  • (14) "We are seeing more and more reports of ambulances stacking up in car parks, more and more patients on trolleys in corridors," he said.
  • (15) The scholastic incidents at nursery school happen prevalently in court on the occasion of recreation activities for falling from a play equipment, at primary school in schoolroom or in corridor on the occasion of recreation for push of schoolfellow, at secondary school in palaestra during time of physical education for falling or traumatic contact with the ball.
  • (16) At the end of one session an interrogator can be heard shouting an order to the guard, who then runs down a corridor, dragging Hanif behind him by his thumbs.
  • (17) At the end of the corridor is a presentation room, the walls bedaubed with exhortations to “Never, Never, Never Give Up”; up another staircase is a run of seminar rooms, in one of which a class of fledgling baristas are learning their trade.
  • (18) According to Vince McCartney of Holborn Studios, “there will be a corridor of steel and glass from King’s Cross to Limehouse” – a distance of about five miles along the Regent’s Canal – as waterside spaces are made into flats.
  • (19) Today boys and girls regularly walk the corridors and yards of the museum, brought by parents and teachers to learn about South Africa's haunted past.
  • (20) "I'm still learning but I never want to turn into one of those managers who meet players in the corridor and look straight through them."

Passageway


Definition:

  • (n.) A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sequentially, beginning with hepatocytes, biliary passageways included canaliculi, preductules, ductules, and ducts.
  • (2) Besides obesity and maleness, other risk factors for OSA are diseases that have an impact on the configuration or effective compliance of the pharyngeal passageway.
  • (3) External nares and nasal passageways, albeit blind-ended, were prominent in the proboscis.
  • (4) Following ATPase localization, four sizes of biliary passageways (canaliculi, bile preductules, ductules, and ducts) were visualized.
  • (5) These epithelial features, different from those of other mammals, including humans, suggest that the greater part of the rabbit vagina accomplishes functions other than serving for copulation and as a fetal passageway.
  • (6) The majority of liquid flux (68%) would occur through passageways smaller than the smallest tracer we used (1.3 nm radius).
  • (7) Iran’s Revolutionary Guards patrol Iranian waters in the Gulf, especially near the strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway where a fifth of the world’s oil passes in tankers.
  • (8) Prisoners are forced to "stay in the lokalka [a fenced-off passageway between two areas in the camp] until lights out" (the prisoner is forbidden to go into the barracks — whether it be autumnl or winter.
  • (9) (2) A consistent and appropriate classification of nasal passageways, epithelia, and other structures is needed to avoid further confusion.
  • (10) Electron micrographs showed tubules of five to nine pyramidally shaped hepatocytes with their apices directed toward a central biliary passageway and their bases directed toward sinusoids.
  • (11) Its concentric passageway symbolises the guided, ritualised walk of the common man towards the sacred inner sanctum of the democratic parliament hall.
  • (12) Internationally, Iran is locked in a stalemate with the west over its nuclear programme and it has recently responded to attempts at banning its oil imports by sabre-rattling and raising the stakes by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world's oil passes in tankers.
  • (13) The optimal dimensions of races and passageways to prevent crowding and turning around should be assessed at the design stage.
  • (14) Qeshm is close to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world’s oil passes in tankers.
  • (15) Physiographic features may serve as barriers or as passageways for epidemic spread of rabies.
  • (16) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
  • (17) By the time the firing stopped, the gunmen had slipped away into the maze of corridors and passageways in the old building.
  • (18) Ken inclines his head in the direction of the passageway.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The passageway’s long corridor acts like a telescope without a lens, says Dr Fabio Silva.
  • (20) With 20 minutes left Iniesta played an impeccable pass with the outside of a foot through a passageway of defenders, Neymar opened up his body and side-footed into the corner.