corridorn.

/ˈkɒrɪdɔː/

Forms: Also 1600s corredor, curridore, 1600s–1800s corridore.

Etymology: < French corridor (16th cent., also courridour), < Italian corridore (also corridoio) a long passage in a building or between two buildings, < correre to run. Compare Spanish corredor in same sense. Webster 1828 pronounced /kɒrɪˈdɔə(r)/; so Byron; Smart 1836–49 /ˌkɒrɪˈdɔː(r)/. The Italian corridoio ( < -orio, Latin -ōrium) is the original type, the primary meaning being ‘running-place’. In the form in -ore it is confused with corritore, corridore a runner.

†1. A passage, covered walk, or avenue between two places. Obsolete in English use.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > portico or arcade

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1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 366 From thence a Curridore, or priuate way, to his Castle of Saint Angelo.

1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 102 There is also a House of Pleasure in the Mote, into which there is no other passage but through a high Corridore.

1739 T. Gray Let. 9 Dec. in Corr. (1971) I. 133 (Bologna) From one of the principal gates to a church of the Virgin..runs a corridore of the same sort.

1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 300 On descending I passed by the church of S. Maria del Monte and its magnificent corridor or piazza, on the declivity of a hill.

†2.

a. Fortification. The continuous path that surrounds the fortifications of a place, on the outside of the moat and protected by the glacis; the covered way. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > covered ways

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corridor1591

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covered-way1685

1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 326 To mount upon the Corridor of y^e Counterscarpe.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend Map no. 54 The Gallery or Corredor..to the Counter-scarfe.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Corridor..In Fortification, the Covert-way above the Counterscarp, lying round about the Compass of the Place, between the Moat and the Pallisadoes.

b. [Applied to the curtain.A Dictionary error handed down from Cotgrave.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Corridor, a curtaine, in fortification.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Corridor, a curtain in Fortification.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Corridor, a Term in fortification, otherwise called Cortina, or Curtain. [So 1678.]]

3. An outside gallery or passage round the quadrangle or court of a building, connecting one part with another.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] > outdoors

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veranda1873

sottoportico1909

breezeway1931

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 129 The Court below is formd into a Squar by a Corridor, having over the chiefe Entrance a stately Cupola cover'd with stone.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Corridor, a gallery or long isle round about a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 66 If..there had been a corridore with arcades all round, as in Covent-Garden.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lvi. 89 Richly caparison'd, a ready row Of armed horse,..Circled the wide extending court below: Above, strange groups adorn'd the corridore.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 288 Those glazed corridors are pleasant to walk in, in bad weather.

a. A main passage in a large building, upon which in its course many apartments open. Also figurative. Cf. coulisse n. 4.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun]

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gallery1541

trance1545

through-passage1575

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dog run1904

dog walk1938

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coulisse1949

1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. xix. 90 Glimmering through the dusky corridore, Another [lamp] chequers o'er the shadowed floor.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 31 They passed along a corridor lit from above, and lined with old family pictures.

1881 G. Smith Lect. & Ess. 198 Finding themselves adrift in the corridors of Windsor.

1962 Listener 15 Feb. 280/1 The glamorous and Machiavellian figures, patrolling the corridors of power, to which we have been accustomed in many recent novels and plays.

1964 C. P. Snow (title) Corridors of power.

1970 Physics Bull. Mar. 110/1 It's no good physicists going into the corridors of power in Whitehall..unless they are..effective people.

figurative.1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. vi. 205 We do well to traverse all the corridors of history.

b. A similar passage in a railway carriage, upon which all the compartments open.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > parts of

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corridor1892

1892 [see corridor train n. at Compounds].

1899 Railway Engineer Jan. 26 The ceiling of the corridor, as will be seen from the drawing, is a complete arch made up in a similar way to that of the compartments.

1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 343/2 The traditional plan of a side corridor connecting separate compartments has given place, on many main-line British trains, to open coaches with a central gangway.

c. A strip of the territory of a state running through another territory and so contrived as to give access to a certain part, e.g. the sea.

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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > narrow strip through other territories

panhandle1846

corridor1919

1919 Economist 5 July 6/2 The German connections across the Polish ‘corridor’ to the sea.

1920 H. Spender Prime Minister 310 When matters seemed at a deadlock—on the Saar Valley, the Polish Corridor, or even the perplexing question of Fiume.

1921 R. W. Seton-Watson in H. W. V. Temperley Hist. Peace Confer. Paris IV. 273 The Czecho-Slovaks advanced a claim for territorial contiguity with the Yugo-slavs, to be attained by the creation of a corridor running from the Danube to the Drave.

1921 Times 4 Jan. 12/1 The Danzig corridor is bound to be the subject of dispute for long to come.

1922 Westm. Gaz. 23 Nov. Sig. Mussolini..has agreed to support the Bulgarian claim to Dedeagatch, and also to a corridor giving access to it.

1950 W. Theimer & P. Campbell Encycl. World Politics 121/2 The Corridor became the immediate cause of World War II.

d. = air corridor n. at air n.¹ Compounds 2.

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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > air as medium for operation of aircraft > [noun] > route through the air

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air corridor1922

1920 Flight 12 346/1 The River Indus is to be the northern boundary of civil flying, save for..two ‘corridors’. One of these is 20 miles wide from Sukkur (exclusive) to Quetta.

1921 Flight 13 293/1 The aerial corridor for machines entering or leaving France..has now been enlarged.

1922 Flight 14 34/1 (heading) Abolition of Air ‘Corridors’. The regulations which have hitherto been in force relating to the ‘corridors’ by which aircraft might enter and leave the U.K. have now been abolished.

1948 H. Nicolson Diary 16 July (1968) III. 146 The Russians.. will be carrying out the training of their fighter aeroplanes across air corridors to Berlin.

Compounds

corridor car n. = corridor carriage n.

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1896 Daily News 5 Aug. 5/1 The Board asks for information as to corridor trains, corridor cars, and carriages with open compartments.

1903 A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car v. 59 The cars will be of the corridor type, seven to a full train.

corridor carriage n. a carriage of a corridor train.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage

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composite carriage1868

Pullman1869

observation car1872

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dog box1905

corridor coach1911

vista-dome1945

Stolypin1970

1893 Daily News 22 June 2/3 First and third class ‘corridor’ carriages... The ‘corridor’ carriages will have an enclosed passage running along the side.

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast viii. 151 It was not a corridor carriage, but one of the old-fashioned kind.

corridor coach n. = corridor carriage n.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage

caravan1821

private car1826

Jim Crow car1835

ladies' car1841

saloon car or carriage1842

palace car1844

ladies' carriage1847

parliamentary carriage1849

parlour car1859

composite carriage1868

Pullman1869

observation car1872

first1873

compo1878

bogie carriage1880

chair-car1880

club car1893

corridor carriage1893

tourist-car1895

birdcage1900

dog box1905

corridor coach1911

vista-dome1945

Stolypin1970

1911 R. Kipling in Harper's Mag. Dec. 5/2 Dr. Gilbert stood by the door of the one composite corridor-coach.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 498/2 Corridor coaches had at first no connecting gangways.

corridor train n. a railway train through the length of which a corridor (sense 4b above) or passage extends.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > types of

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1892 Daily News 8 Mar. 5/3 The Corridor Train is so named from a narrow passage which runs from end to end.

1894 Strand Mag. 8 170/1 The 2 p.m. from London to Crewe—the ‘Corridor’ train.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 10/1 The Great Western Railway Magazine for September claims for that company the credit of producing the first complete corridor-train, combining the privacy of separate compartments with the advantages of through communication from end to end and access to toilet rooms. It was ‘built’ in April 1892.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 498/2 The Great Western and Great Eastern Railways both produced corridor trains with proper covered gangway connexions..in 1891.

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A belt of land linking two areas, typically one which follows or spans a major transportation route such as a road, railway, or river.

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1913 Q. Rev. Apr. 575 In lieu of the no-thoroughfare it had theretofore been with no exit except in the west, the Suez Canal transformed it into a corridor of continents.

1936 Amer. Hist. Rev. 42 88 The author controverts the usual opinion of archaeologists that the Danube formed a ‘corridor’ from the Black Sea to the upper Rhine for migrators and traders.

1960 Washington Post 20 Dec. a14 A dozen of them [sc. satellite cities] would fill the corridor between Baltimore and Washington.

1992 B. Jacobs Fractured Cities iv. 93 The ‘M4 corridor’ between London and Bristol became a growth corridor during the 1980s.

2015 Daily Tel. 19 Feb. 14/2 Russian-backed forces..ambushed a column retreating through an agreed ‘safe corridor’, killing hundreds.

Draft additions June 2020

A strip of natural habitat connecting populations of wildlife otherwise separated by cultivated land, roads, etc.Frequently with modifying word, as biological corridor, habitat corridor, green corridor, migration corridor, etc. See also wildlife corridor n. at wild life n. Additions.

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1947 Jrnl. Mammalogy 28 431 The cessation of predator destruction..in a mountainous corridor connecting the Park with wolf-inhabited mountains to the north would probably permit wolves to drift naturally into the Park.

1974 E. Pollard et al. Hedges (1977) x. 132 It is possible that hedges are now less important as corridors than they were before the use of persistent organo-chlorine pesticides.

1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vi. 181 Migration corridors—so-called greenways—among parks seem essential to protect these ecological islands from being artificially shrunk by rapidly changing climate.

2019 Assam Tribune (Nexis) 18 Aug. There are three natural elephant corridors passing through the said tea estate, with herds of pachyderms often claiming right of way.

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corridor of uncertainty n. Cricket an area just outside the batter's off stump, commonly used as a line of delivery by the bowler with the intention of leaving the batter uncertain whether or not to play a shot; (also in extended use) a situation or course of action which causes hesitation or uncertainty over how to proceed.Use of this phrase is associated particularly with Geoffrey Boycott (b. 1940), English cricketer and cricket commentator.

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1986 Advertiser (Adelaide) 24 Oct. 29/7 I've tried to bowl a full arm-length and to concentrate on putting the ball in that corridor of uncertainty all the time.

1992 Guardian 13 June (Weekend Suppl.) 31/4 Bob Slicer, an old campaigner in the field, reckons to probe a few corridors of uncertainty among the big four [car breakdown services].

1993 Independent (Nexis) 15 June 32 From round the wicket they can fire into what Geoffrey Boycott calls ‘the corridor of uncertainty’ outside the off-stump.

1996 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 17 Dec. a15/5 The Australians are bowling in the corridor of uncertainty to Brian and most of our players.

2007 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 9 Dec. (Featues section) 29 Northerners kiss once, but often find themselves in the ‘corridor of uncertainty’, that moment of hesitation when they weigh up whether to go for a second.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	corridor
释义	corridorn. /ˈkɒrɪdɔː/ Forms: Also 1600s corredor, curridore, 1600s–1800s corridore. Etymology: < French corridor (16th cent., also courridour), < Italian corridore (also corridoio) a long passage in a building or between two buildings, < correre to run. Compare Spanish corredor in same sense. Webster 1828 pronounced /kɒrɪˈdɔə(r)/; so Byron; Smart 1836–49 /ˌkɒrɪˈdɔː(r)/. The Italian corridoio ( < -orio, Latin -ōrium) is the original type, the primary meaning being ‘running-place’. In the form in -ore it is confused with corritore, corridore a runner. †1. A passage, covered walk, or avenue between two places. Obsolete in English use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > portico or arcade alurec1325 alley1363 gallerya1500 aluring1501 cloisterc1540 pawn1548 stoa1603 portico1607 row1610 porticus1617 corridor1620 piazza1642 xystus1664 arcade1731 veranda1873 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 366 From thence a Curridore, or priuate way, to his Castle of Saint Angelo. 1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 102 There is also a House of Pleasure in the Mote, into which there is no other passage but through a high Corridore. 1739 T. Gray Let. 9 Dec. in Corr. (1971) I. 133 (Bologna) From one of the principal gates to a church of the Virgin..runs a corridore of the same sort. 1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 300 On descending I passed by the church of S. Maria del Monte and its magnificent corridor or piazza, on the declivity of a hill. †2. a. Fortification. The continuous path that surrounds the fortifications of a place, on the outside of the moat and protected by the glacis; the covered way. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > covered ways way1481 corridor1591 covert way1591 caponier1683 covered-way1685 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 326 To mount upon the Corridor of y^e Counterscarpe. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend Map no. 54 The Gallery or Corredor..to the Counter-scarfe. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Corridor..In Fortification, the Covert-way above the Counterscarp, lying round about the Compass of the Place, between the Moat and the Pallisadoes. b. [Applied to the curtain.A Dictionary error handed down from Cotgrave. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Corridor, a curtaine, in fortification. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Corridor, a curtain in Fortification. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Corridor, a Term in fortification, otherwise called Cortina, or Curtain. [So 1678.]] 3. An outside gallery or passage round the quadrangle or court of a building, connecting one part with another. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] > outdoors corridorc1660 veranda1873 sottoportico1909 breezeway1931 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 129 The Court below is formd into a Squar by a Corridor, having over the chiefe Entrance a stately Cupola cover'd with stone. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Corridor, a gallery or long isle round about a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 66 If..there had been a corridore with arcades all round, as in Covent-Garden. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lvi. 89 Richly caparison'd, a ready row Of armed horse,..Circled the wide extending court below: Above, strange groups adorn'd the corridore. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 288 Those glazed corridors are pleasant to walk in, in bad weather. 4. a. A main passage in a large building, upon which in its course many apartments open. Also figurative. Cf. coulisse n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] alley1363 tresance1428 passagea1525 gallery1541 trance1545 through-passage1575 lobby1596 passageway?1606 conduit1624 gangway1702 vista1708 glidec1710 aisle1734 gallery1756 corridor1814 traverse1822 heck1825 rotunda1847 scutchell1847 zaguan1851 aisleway1868 pend1893 dogtrot1901 fairway1903 dog run1904 dog walk1938 walkout1947 coulisse1949 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. xix. 90 Glimmering through the dusky corridore, Another [lamp] chequers o'er the shadowed floor. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 31 They passed along a corridor lit from above, and lined with old family pictures. 1881 G. Smith Lect. & Ess. 198 Finding themselves adrift in the corridors of Windsor. 1962 Listener 15 Feb. 280/1 The glamorous and Machiavellian figures, patrolling the corridors of power, to which we have been accustomed in many recent novels and plays. 1964 C. P. Snow (title) Corridors of power. 1970 Physics Bull. Mar. 110/1 It's no good physicists going into the corridors of power in Whitehall..unless they are..effective people. figurative.1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. vi. 205 We do well to traverse all the corridors of history. b. A similar passage in a railway carriage, upon which all the compartments open. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > parts of platform1821 clerestorya1884 vestibule1889 corridor1892 1892 [see corridor train n. at Compounds]. 1899 Railway Engineer Jan. 26 The ceiling of the corridor, as will be seen from the drawing, is a complete arch made up in a similar way to that of the compartments. 1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 343/2 The traditional plan of a side corridor connecting separate compartments has given place, on many main-line British trains, to open coaches with a central gangway. c. A strip of the territory of a state running through another territory and so contrived as to give access to a certain part, e.g. the sea. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > narrow strip through other territories panhandle1846 corridor1919 1919 Economist 5 July 6/2 The German connections across the Polish ‘corridor’ to the sea. 1920 H. Spender Prime Minister 310 When matters seemed at a deadlock—on the Saar Valley, the Polish Corridor, or even the perplexing question of Fiume. 1921 R. W. Seton-Watson in H. W. V. Temperley Hist. Peace Confer. Paris IV. 273 The Czecho-Slovaks advanced a claim for territorial contiguity with the Yugo-slavs, to be attained by the creation of a corridor running from the Danube to the Drave. 1921 Times 4 Jan. 12/1 The Danzig corridor is bound to be the subject of dispute for long to come. 1922 Westm. Gaz. 23 Nov. Sig. Mussolini..has agreed to support the Bulgarian claim to Dedeagatch, and also to a corridor giving access to it. 1950 W. Theimer & P. Campbell Encycl. World Politics 121/2 The Corridor became the immediate cause of World War II. d. = air corridor n. at air n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > air as medium for operation of aircraft > [noun] > route through the air skypath1840 airway1873 lane1911 corridor1920 air corridor1922 1920 Flight 12 346/1 The River Indus is to be the northern boundary of civil flying, save for..two ‘corridors’. One of these is 20 miles wide from Sukkur (exclusive) to Quetta. 1921 Flight 13 293/1 The aerial corridor for machines entering or leaving France..has now been enlarged. 1922 Flight 14 34/1 (heading) Abolition of Air ‘Corridors’. The regulations which have hitherto been in force relating to the ‘corridors’ by which aircraft might enter and leave the U.K. have now been abolished. 1948 H. Nicolson Diary 16 July (1968) III. 146 The Russians.. will be carrying out the training of their fighter aeroplanes across air corridors to Berlin. Compounds corridor car n. = corridor carriage n. ΚΠ 1896 Daily News 5 Aug. 5/1 The Board asks for information as to corridor trains, corridor cars, and carriages with open compartments. 1903 A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car v. 59 The cars will be of the corridor type, seven to a full train. corridor carriage n. a carriage of a corridor train. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage caravan1821 private car1826 Jim Crow car1835 ladies' car1841 saloon car or carriage1842 palace car1844 ladies' carriage1847 parliamentary carriage1849 parlour car1859 composite carriage1868 Pullman1869 observation car1872 first1873 compo1878 bogie carriage1880 chair-car1880 club car1893 corridor carriage1893 tourist-car1895 birdcage1900 dog box1905 corridor coach1911 vista-dome1945 Stolypin1970 1893 Daily News 22 June 2/3 First and third class ‘corridor’ carriages... The ‘corridor’ carriages will have an enclosed passage running along the side. 1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast viii. 151 It was not a corridor carriage, but one of the old-fashioned kind. corridor coach n. = corridor carriage n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage caravan1821 private car1826 Jim Crow car1835 ladies' car1841 saloon car or carriage1842 palace car1844 ladies' carriage1847 parliamentary carriage1849 parlour car1859 composite carriage1868 Pullman1869 observation car1872 first1873 compo1878 bogie carriage1880 chair-car1880 club car1893 corridor carriage1893 tourist-car1895 birdcage1900 dog box1905 corridor coach1911 vista-dome1945 Stolypin1970 1911 R. Kipling in Harper's Mag. Dec. 5/2 Dr. Gilbert stood by the door of the one composite corridor-coach. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 498/2 Corridor coaches had at first no connecting gangways. corridor train n. a railway train through the length of which a corridor (sense 4b above) or passage extends. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > types of parliamentary train1845 excursion-train1849 parliamentary1854 parly1855 corridor train1892 trip-train1894 railmotor1903 railbus1932 mystery train1933 pool passenger train1934 Skybus1963 pay-train1968 1892 Daily News 8 Mar. 5/3 The Corridor Train is so named from a narrow passage which runs from end to end. 1894 Strand Mag. 8 170/1 The 2 p.m. from London to Crewe—the ‘Corridor’ train. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 10/1 The Great Western Railway Magazine for September claims for that company the credit of producing the first complete corridor-train, combining the privacy of separate compartments with the advantages of through communication from end to end and access to toilet rooms. It was ‘built’ in April 1892. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 498/2 The Great Western and Great Eastern Railways both produced corridor trains with proper covered gangway connexions..in 1891. Draft additions March 2017 A belt of land linking two areas, typically one which follows or spans a major transportation route such as a road, railway, or river. ΚΠ 1913 Q. Rev. Apr. 575 In lieu of the no-thoroughfare it had theretofore been with no exit except in the west, the Suez Canal transformed it into a corridor of continents. 1936 Amer. Hist. Rev. 42 88 The author controverts the usual opinion of archaeologists that the Danube formed a ‘corridor’ from the Black Sea to the upper Rhine for migrators and traders. 1960 Washington Post 20 Dec. a14 A dozen of them [sc. satellite cities] would fill the corridor between Baltimore and Washington. 1992 B. Jacobs Fractured Cities iv. 93 The ‘M4 corridor’ between London and Bristol became a growth corridor during the 1980s. 2015 Daily Tel. 19 Feb. 14/2 Russian-backed forces..ambushed a column retreating through an agreed ‘safe corridor’, killing hundreds. Draft additions June 2020 A strip of natural habitat connecting populations of wildlife otherwise separated by cultivated land, roads, etc.Frequently with modifying word, as biological corridor, habitat corridor, green corridor, migration corridor, etc. See also wildlife corridor n. at wild life n. Additions. ΚΠ 1947 Jrnl. Mammalogy 28 431 The cessation of predator destruction..in a mountainous corridor connecting the Park with wolf-inhabited mountains to the north would probably permit wolves to drift naturally into the Park. 1974 E. Pollard et al. Hedges (1977) x. 132 It is possible that hedges are now less important as corridors than they were before the use of persistent organo-chlorine pesticides. 1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vi. 181 Migration corridors—so-called greenways—among parks seem essential to protect these ecological islands from being artificially shrunk by rapidly changing climate. 2019 Assam Tribune (Nexis) 18 Aug. There are three natural elephant corridors passing through the said tea estate, with herds of pachyderms often claiming right of way. Draft additions March 2009 corridor of uncertainty n. Cricket an area just outside the batter's off stump, commonly used as a line of delivery by the bowler with the intention of leaving the batter uncertain whether or not to play a shot; (also in extended use) a situation or course of action which causes hesitation or uncertainty over how to proceed.Use of this phrase is associated particularly with Geoffrey Boycott (b. 1940), English cricketer and cricket commentator. ΚΠ 1986 Advertiser (Adelaide) 24 Oct. 29/7 I've tried to bowl a full arm-length and to concentrate on putting the ball in that corridor of uncertainty all the time. 1992 Guardian 13 June (Weekend Suppl.) 31/4 Bob Slicer, an old campaigner in the field, reckons to probe a few corridors of uncertainty among the big four [car breakdown services]. 1993 Independent (Nexis) 15 June 32 From round the wicket they can fire into what Geoffrey Boycott calls ‘the corridor of uncertainty’ outside the off-stump. 1996 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 17 Dec. a15/5 The Australians are bowling in the corridor of uncertainty to Brian and most of our players. 2007 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 9 Dec. (Featues section) 29 Northerners kiss once, but often find themselves in the ‘corridor of uncertainty’, that moment of hesitation when they weigh up whether to go for a second. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591
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