corridor
(kɒrɪdɔːʳ , US kɔːrɪdər )
Word forms: corridors
1. countable noun B1
A corridor is a long passage in a building, with doors and rooms on one or both sides.
2. countable noun
A corridor is a strip of land that connects one country to another or gives it a route to the sea through another country.
The republic lay in a narrow corridor of disputed land.
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A narrow underground corridor leads to a bulb-lit bedroom showing the captives' pitiful attempts to decorate it with stars.
The Sun
The entrance corridor leads to a noble zaal or saloon running the full 50ft width of the house.
Times, Sunday Times
Once within the left-hand maisonette, a reassuringly practical corridor leads from the elegantly-proportioned drawing room to the well-appointed kitchen/breakfast room, before ascending a staircase to a helpful utility room.
Times, Sunday Times
Turn left and a broad corridor leads to a study and a playroom; turn right and you find the kitchen/breakfast room and, next to it, the formal dining room.
Times, Sunday Times
An axial corridor leads from the dwellings to the lighthouse tower's base.
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A third corridor runs the length of the southwestern side, through which access to the cenotaphs, and to the southeastern section, can be gained.
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A long corridor runs straight through the building, through which a breeze must always pass.
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The corridor runs away from the midrib most of the time, but might run along the midrib.
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A corridor runs between the cenotaphs on the northwest, and another between those on the southeast.
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Normally, the corridor runs along the midrib.
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We all knew what rotten value this shoddy, dark corridor deal would deliver.
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They found 'rows' of lags peering from behind locked doors into a dark corridor.
The Sun
The wardrobes were behind the bathroom in a dark corridor instead of being in the bedroom.
Times, Sunday Times
I'd rather spend an evening in an actual dark corridor than inching along a virtual one.
The Sun
A long, dark corridor near the entrance was packed full of soldiers in various uniforms, jostling and waiting in the sticky heat to enter the maze above.
Times, Sunday Times
We walked down an empty corridor towards a pair of swing doors.
Times, Sunday Times
On television, the army shopping channel chatters away to an empty corridor.
Times, Sunday Times
Security guards were hired to man the empty corridors.
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When we arrived, they were just getting ready to close for the season, and we found ourselves the only guests in the place with all those long, empty corridors...
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It's along, seemingly endless corridor filled with a thick, blinding fog.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't laugh - there are 600 of them, each along a seemingly endless corridor of marble and travertine.
The Sun
Modernist alienation takes on a gigantic twenty-first-century form, the endless corridors of apartment blocks stretching imperceptibly into the gloom.
The Times Literary Supplement
On a big ship with endless corridors, the less mobile might want to think about a cabin near the lifts.
Times, Sunday Times
There's no traipsing along endless corridors to the departure lounge here.
Times, Sunday Times
She was then ushered into a busy hospital corridor.
Times,Sunday Times
He skips and dances down the hospital corridor in the late hours of the night.
Christianity Today
You see some plots coming a hospital corridor off.
Times, Sunday Times
A conversation in a hospital corridor yesterday was filmed so that we saw about 50 per cent of one of the two speakers.
Times, Sunday Times
In the hospital corridor, my curiosity got the better of me.
The Sun
I should have guessed from the pictures of warehouses that line the corridor to his office.
Times, Sunday Times
Staff line the corridor applauding.
Times,Sunday Times
In one theatre the management simply lined the corridors with fresh straw after each performance.
Times, Sunday Times
Patients lined the corridors and fans had to be brought in.
Times, Sunday Times
Rubble lines the corridors, sandbags have replaced windowpanes.
Times, Sunday Times
A long corridor, with salix twigs, orchids and asparagus ferns covering the walls, had been scattered with 5,000 rose heads.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It was part of a long corridor of Victorian houses which snaked along the contours of the river bank.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS (2002)
He turned into the darkness of the long corridor.
The Broken God (1993)
If he turns his head to the right he can see, though internal windows, a good portion of the main corridor.
Times, Sunday Times
Step a few yards along the main corridor and you find yourself in a glass atrium.
Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, on the day of the talk, the carpet fitters were still at work in the main corridor and reception area.
Times, Sunday Times
The main corridor floor was of marble; the other hall floors were of quarter-sawed oak; and the classroom floors were made of hard maple.
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Two long stone paved aisles were built adjacent to a main corridor paved with lime.
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Only 48 bird species regularly nest along the river, while others use the river as a migration corridor or as overwintering habitat.
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Because of the aridity, many animal species rely on protected migration corridors during droughty conditions.
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Environmentalists expressed concern about butterfly migration corridors and the future of two species of local wildcats, the ocelot and the jaguarundi.
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Pronghorn migration corridors are threatened by habitat fragmentation and the blocking of traditional routes.
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The project aims to ensure long term survival of viable conservation reliant populations of elephants in their natural habitats by protecting the elephants, their habitats and migration corridors.
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Suddenly the trapdoor opened above him, flooding the narrow corridor with light.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
He put the glasses and the bottle back in the hole in the wall, and then led the way down the narrow corridor, talking as he went.
COLDHEART CANYON (2002)
The doors parted to reveal a narrow corridor that ran the breadth of the block.
CHAMELEON (2002)
Together they patrol the corridor of time, patching up weak spots that cause all sorts of chaos.
The Sun
And they can hire security firm heavies to police the checkpoints and patrol the corridors.
The Sun
While they squabble, specialists patrol the corridors day and night ready to put out flames.
Times, Sunday Times
Officers patrolled the corridors telling people to stay away from the windows.
Times, Sunday Times
So they had security guards ex-military, ex-police, ex-prison guards patrolling the corridors.
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In common with other railroad towns in the region, textile investors constructed cotton mills and mill villages along the rail corridor.
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It opened in 2008 along the area's historic rail corridor.
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He was assisted by a member of the public who entered the rail corridor.
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The authority would be responsible for the design, implementation, and building of the rail corridor.
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The original rail corridor was a major physical barrier between the downtown and the lakefront where continuous residential, recreational and business developments are occurring.
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The task force ultimately recommended a bus transit corridor.
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The system includes three bus rapid transit corridors.
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A well planned metropolis would densify along mass transit corridors and around major urban hubs.
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It works on sustainable development supporting more effective trade and transit corridors, food security and health systems strengthening.
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A business district also began to develop along the transportation corridor.
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Despite the movement away from using the waterway for shipping, its role as a transportation corridor continued to evolve through the late 19th-century.
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One of their recommendations was the creation of a public energy transportation corridor.
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However, the city's merchants relocated when the railroad survey was completed to have better access to the new transportation corridor.
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Up until that time, the river had been an important water transportation corridor.
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This area includes a designated travel corridor to link areas of habitat on the north and south sides of the new landfill.
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A targeted and risk-based approach must be the way forward, with regional travel corridors and an effective testing strategy on arrival.
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What happens to travel corridors?
Times,Sunday Times
A narrow underground corridor leads to a bulb-lit bedroom showing the captives' pitiful attempts to decorate it with stars.
The Sun
Ice would have been winched out through a hole at ground level, and workers could get in along an underground corridor.
Times, Sunday Times
Also, an underground corridor replaced the overhead walkway, with ramps at each platform.
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An underground corridor provides a connection with an artificial grotto on the ground floor of the palace which served as a dining room in summertime.
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The court and the prison are connected by underground corridor.
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Walk the corridors of power and get a real sense of the atmosphere within this unique building.
Times, Sunday Times
With consultations moved online and all non-urgent procedures paused, you had to be a serious case just to be walking the corridors.
Times,Sunday Times
There are plenty of old friends walking the corridors of power.
Times, Sunday Times
We continue to walk the corridors, dropping in on classes, each of which carries on as normal despite our interruption.
Times, Sunday Times
At the age of eightysix, he continues to walk the corridors of government ministries, mingle with business elites, and dominate op-ed pages like almost no one else.
The Times Literary Supplement
If they are more than 1.5 metres, you can install utility cupboards (90cm wide corridor and a 60cm deep washer/dryer).
Times, Sunday Times
That six-foot wide corridor running between the changing rooms hides a massive gulf in the respective fortunes of two famous clubs.
The Sun
After a moult the corridor gradually widens considerably, generally into a wide corridor, more rarely into a real blotch.
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Young larvae make a short, relatively wide corridor that quickly widens into an elliptic blotch.
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The second ground floor area comprised a wide corridor giving access to three offices (the town clerk, the mayor, and the engineer) and the engineering drawing office.
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The money will also help to finance continuing work on establishing a wildlife corridor between the two parks.
Times, Sunday Times
Do roof gardens collectively make a valuable wildlife corridor?
Times, Sunday Times
A further example of a bird wildlife corridor would be a mountain range corridor.
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The project will also preserve and enhance a wildlife corridor to improve regional open space connectivity.
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This adjoining of the parks creates a 180 km (111 mi) wildlife corridor.
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Translations:
Chinese: 走廊
Japanese: 廊下
- attractive alternative
- attractive appearance
- attractive candidate
- attractive design
- attractive destination
- attractive dividend
- attractive feature
- attractive flowers
- attractive foliage
- attractive investment
- attractively
- attractiveness
- attractive option
- attractive package
- attractive packaging
- attractive personality
- attractive price
- attractive proposition
- attractive prospect
- attractive quality
- attractive return
- attractive target
- attractive trait
- attractive valuation
- attractive yield