What's the difference between frontage and street?

Frontage


Definition:

  • (n.) The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Eamonn McCabe The building was shallow and unlovely, really two knocked together, but it had a broad frontage, and across it in huge letters Hunt spelled out “Foxtons Estate Agents”.
  • (2) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (3) The respective case circumstances and, if available, testimonies were included in our study as well as the special constructional peculiarities of the engine frontages which logically contribute to the appearance of injuries.
  • (4) I don’t have any objections to a Jack the Ripper museum, it’s a commercial enterprise like the London Dungeon and Jack the Ripper walking tours, but what I’m miffed about is the fact that we seem to have been completely deceived, in a way that is rather unpleasant.” Above the museum’s black and red livery frontage are two signs made to resemble London’s official English Heritage blue plaques.
  • (5) Drinking up and moving on, we pass a lovely old department store, its elegant frontage dating back to 1895, then stop at Grey's Inn.
  • (6) A huge mosaic proclaiming “Peace Is Better” graces its frontage.
  • (7) A few weeks later, during a generally peaceful anti-gentrification march on 25 April, half the frontage of Foxtons was smashed in .
  • (8) Jesus denounced his Pharisaic enemies as whited sepulchres, or shining tombs; and that is what the steam-cleaned marble frontage of St Paul's will become if the protesters are evicted to make room for empty pomp: a whited sepulchre, where morality and truth count for nothing against the convenience of the heritage industry.
  • (9) It is, of course, synonymous with New Labour , and her constituency office is in this Islington, in Barnsbury, all quietly expensive cars, leafy streets and white Georgian frontages.
  • (10) I was thinking, hoping, they're going to miss us, because we've got such a small, narrow frontage," she says.
  • (11) Located along the frontage road (old Route 66), near Hope Road on the south side of 1-40.
  • (12) You’re doing a PR frontage, you’re going on and on.
  • (13) The mean wear degree and pattern were compared among four geographical grouping of crania separated by up to 700 miles of river frontage.
  • (14) Typically earthships are built into hillsides which act as an insulator while a glazed frontage faces south, to maximise the sun's natural warmth.
  • (15) In the centre of the area now stands a tarmac square, lined either side with new red-brick buildings, carefully designed to frame this new civic space with active frontages.
  • (16) It is like a building collapsed in an earthquake or destroyed in a bombing; its fake facade cascaded to the ground, revealing a series of cramped, life-sized apartments whose frontage has been torn off.
  • (17) Yet once you’re past the bamboo and palm thatch frontage, this waterfront venue is suitably dark and smoky, with shamrocks decorating the menu, classic rock posters on the walls and a blissfully Marley-free soundtrack of jazz, blues and rock.

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.

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