(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.
Storey
Definition:
(n.) See Story.
Example Sentences:
(1) The club’s alumni president, Charles Storey, had previously written a letter to the student newspaper to argue that “forcing single-gender organizations to accept members of the opposite sex could potentially increase, not decrease, the potential for sexual misconduct”.
(2) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(3) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
(4) Berkeley has launched a new design called the Urban House, a three-storey house with a private roof garden instead of a back garden.
(5) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
(6) Jackson also has plans for two-storey versions of the same concept.
(7) Eaton Square is one of the poshest addresses in London – the rubbish left outside the six-storey houses include empty Pol Roger bottles; one or two buildings have flags (not British) or blue plaques detailing how the likes of Neville Chamberlain once lived there.
(8) CAP was monitored by measuring the level of in vitro fertilization and by evaluating the pattern of chlortetracycline binding to individual sperm heads [Ward and Storey, Dev Biol 104:287, 1984].
(9) Staff battled the rays with an assortment of big umbrellas and pot plants, before covering the entire 57-storey glass wall with non-reflective film – the likely solution in London.
(10) The central lobby is lit by a over-storey whose windows actually open (far rarer than it should be), and protected from the sun by automatic blinds.
(11) The wider construction was, in many cases, favourable to Cosa Nostra (Sicilian mafia) business interests, and produced 10 or more storey concrete buildings.
(12) A force of 110 heavily armed officers, led by the elite tactical unit Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion (Raid), launched an assault on a third‑storey flat at 8 rue Corbillon, a few doors down from a primary school and a 15-minute walk from the Stade de France.
(13) Selected writings by English authors Sillitoe, Storey and Hines are studied and examined to illustrate the many sources available to identify, describe, analyse and complement academic and empirical researches in the sociology of sport and physical education.
(14) The fall took place at a three-storey Victorian house in Herne Hill, near Brixton, where the group are believed to have lived for about seven years from 1997.
(15) Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
(16) The deaths came when a four-storey building was hit in the town of Kiryat Malachi, 15 miles (25km) north of Gaza; a four-year-old boy and two babies were also wounded.
(17) Owned by Mukesh Ambani, it is worth an estimated $1bn, is 27-storeys high and has three helipads.
(18) Langham Place, for instance, is a 59-storey complex in Hong Kong that includes retail, a five-star hotel and class-A office space.
(19) A few metres away, the only lights on belonged to the pair of smart two-storey houses Jonathan built for his parents.
(20) This 49-storey building has sat derelict in the city’s downtown for 17 years, after an economic crisis halted its costly development.