What's the difference between gangway and manrope?

Gangway


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.
  • (v. i.) In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.
  • (v. i.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.
  • (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Passengers will also benefit from free wifi, at-seat charging points, real-time information screens, air conditioning, and wider gangways and doors for quicker boarding.
  • (2) The street delimits different zones, with causal traffic at street level and hospital traffic between the wards and operating theatres and X-ray departments (which are collected in blocks in a central square) on gangways crossing the "street" at higher levels.
  • (3) Twelve hours after boarding the Leiv Eiriksson, the 11 activists who had occupied a gangway 80 ft above the water were forced down by a gale as the vessel entered Greek waters.
  • (4) As it was any spectators crammed into the gangways of court 16 expecting high courtroom drama will have left as many have before: baffled and generally wrung out by the mind-fuddling complexities of chancery proceedings.
  • (5) A gangway and glass panels are being built all the way round the central void, to give visitors the impression of walking on air, 57 metres above the ground.
  • (6) Unverified mobile phone footage showed chaotic scenes with scores of prisoners out of their cells shouting in gangways and walkways.
  • (7) As a prison doctor I’ve seen the crisis in jails – half the inmates shouldn’t be there | Gordon Cameron Read more Inmates flooded the jail’s gangways after the unrest broke out after 5pm on Sunday after staff were forced to retreat to “safe areas” within the jail.
  • (8) Where would my girls go?” At Tenderloin gay bar Gangway, which recently acquired new owners and is expected to soon close and transform into a new establishment, longtime manager Bob Ames, 58, said he hoped the gay community would continue to patronize the bar in its new form.
  • (9) Each arm of the maze is provided with a short blind alley and a long main gangway.
  • (10) This winter, The Gangway, the oldest gay bar in town, is closing down.
  • (11) Due to the complexity of the maze the rats keep patrolling the gangways without being rewarded for it.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bedford prison rioters shouting in jail gangways And then there are the inmates with mental health issues.
  • (13) Undaunted, the climbers made it to a gangway 80ft over the vessel's starboard stern.
  • (14) Armstrong's idea converts a long section of the deck of a ship into gangway, which attaches to the turbine and remains steady while the boat bobs up and down in the waves.
  • (15) In the blank faces of the stricken survivors being helped from the sea off Rhodes, or shuffling dazed down the gangway into a strange Sicilian port , they can only be imagined.
  • (16) From 100ft away in the pale dawn light it is a 15-storey industrial castle, bristling with cranes, derricks, gangways, chains, spars, girders, pipes, helipads and radar.
  • (17) The crew are well-trained, but some people will be running up and down the gangway.

Manrope


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship.

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