What's the difference between metro and subway?

Metro


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (2) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
  • (3) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
  • (4) Despite the claims, the Pyongyang metro is indeed a functional system, running along two bisecting lines in the central and outer-western parts of Pyongyang.
  • (5) During the past 11 years, the Metro Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry has prospectively followed all cases of glomerulonephritis starting from the time of biopsy.
  • (6) Current sanitary surveillance at the Moscow Metro was analyzed under the conditions of scientific and technical revolution.
  • (7) Moments later, Deputy Chief Tom Roberts, of Las Vegas Metro, defused the situation by delivering the announcement that Cliven Bundy's cattle would be returned within 30 minutes.
  • (8) Pearson's father, a retired air pilot, has been killed by a deranged mental patient who opened fire, apparently at random, on the crowds shopping at the Metro-Centre, a massive mall in the middle of this town.
  • (9) The first study examined the performance of 911 children, with histories of perinatal risk events, on a restandardized Philippine (Metro-Manila) version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) which was developed in 1980.
  • (10) Belgian special forces arrested four people in the capital’s Place du Grand Sablonon Saturday afternoon, while the Brussels Metro system is expected to be shut down until Sunday afternoon at the earliest.
  • (11) Helena writes: First it was striking metro workers, now it is seamen.
  • (12) Back in 2001, the Guardian Media Group partnered with Associated to print Metro in Manchester, while Trinity Mirror joined forces with Associated in a similar arrangement in Liverpool and Cardiff in 2006.
  • (13) A British man missing in Brussels since suicide bomb blasts rocked the city’s airport and metro system has been confirmed dead.
  • (14) Setting off to the demonstration, he tweeted from the metro: “Yes, there is this house arrest.
  • (15) The England pilot – which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region – will be contested by ITN's consortium, which is backed by Melvyn Bragg , which includes Johnston Press, Newsquest, Metro Radio and ITV Tyne Tees and Borders news staff.
  • (16) There is therefore an "urban bias" of food supply to Metro Manila, that is, there is a much higher demand capacity for Metro Manila to draw food supply because of its higher income level and bigger population.
  • (17) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
  • (18) Most major cities sell travel cards valid for multiple journeys or a specific number of days that can be used across buses, trams and metros and result in small savings that really add up.
  • (19) He travelled into Brussels on the Metro every day and after we’d texted he must have gone straight out and got on the Metro that was attacked.
  • (20) Alstom, the French electricity generation and rail transport firm, is seeking contracts to work on expansion of the metro in Tehran, build two more lines in the city of Mashhad and participate in the electrification of the 600-mile Tehran-Mashhad railway.

Subway


Definition:

  • (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
  • (2) During the non-heating months of June, July and August of 1974, the total and respirable dust content at an underground station of the Newark City Subway System was determined.
  • (3) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) – A 16km (10-mile) subway extension to take riders from central Rio to the Olympic Park in the western suburb of Barra da Tijuca is likely to be finished just a few weeks before the games open.
  • (6) She invested precious nickels on subway rides to potential employers and, when no job forthcame, explored the surrounding areas.
  • (7) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
  • (8) This paper looks at the relationship between suicide-related newspaper reports and a subway-suicide epidemic.
  • (9) The emergency service tend to victims of the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack on Tokyo's subway in 1995.
  • (10) From the technical appointments of Claudio Reyna and Jason Kreis to a fan-sourced club crest reflecting the old New York subway tokens, when the club have had the ability to make and execute a decision by consensus they have generally made the best possible one.
  • (11) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
  • (12) I might of sucked a few dicks, I might of slept on a few subways, but I made it.” Three days after arriving in Oklahoma City, Beauty turned herself in on warrants outstanding from five years prior.
  • (13) Police closed a stretch of Toronto's subway system along the protest route, and the largest shopping mall closed after the protest began to turn violent.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority originally ruled that the posters were demeaning and would not be permitted in the city's subways, but allowed them after the anti-Muslim group took the agency to court.
  • (15) A man convicted in 2006 of attempting to bomb the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan told an informant who concocted the plot he would have to check with his mother and was uncomfortable planting the bombs himself.
  • (16) Although the subway system is still down - with worryingly "no timeline for repair" - the major bridges into Manhattan are now open.
  • (17) Outside rush hour, the subway is eerily silent: thanks to a strong underground signal, everyone's staring at their smartphones, texting, playing games, or reading.
  • (18) A very smiley Freitas collects her cake, and I take the subway back downtown, only to find a very lonely lamppost where my bike was.
  • (19) But the halal meat served by KFC, Nando's, Pizza Express and Subway is certified by bodies that do permit pre-stunning.
  • (20) This is the worst terrorist act in France since 1995, when a bomb planted by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group exploded in the Saint Michel subway station, killing eight and injuring more than 100.