Corridor

Definition: Corridor

Corridor

Noun

1. An enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it.

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Date "corridor" was first used: 1591. (references)

Avian

Building & Civil Engineering

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CORRIDOR

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Method

Door; gateway; (opening); channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel.

Receptacle

Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Crosswords: Corridor

French (corridor, passage).

Then I suggest you take that damned thing to the corridor or some other part of the train where you obviously belong (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

In the corridor. (Gattaca; writing credit: Andrew Niccol)

I used to ride my pony up and down this corridor when I was young, then I grew up, got drunk, and fell off (The Great Race; writing credit: Arthur A. Ross)

And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a most painful death (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

Well that is the messiest pile of trays I have ever seen in a hotel corridor. (Dear Heart; writing credit: Tad Mosel)

There were voices down the corridor, (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

Shock Corridor (1963)

Corridor of Mirrors (1948)

Ladies of the Corridor (1986)

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References

• Communications Opportunities and the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

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Books

• Black Corridor (reference)

• Corridor of Storms (reference)

• Metropolitan Corridor (reference)

• The Man Sitting in the Corridor (reference)

• Upstate New York, Corridor to Progress (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection (reference)

• Corridor of Mirrors (reference)

• Hiking the Grand Canyon - The Corridor Trails (reference)

• Shock Corridor (reference)

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Music

• Beyond the Calm of the Corridor (reference)

• Shock Corridor (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A corridor in Building 17, Chamblee showing the conditions of facilities of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Credit: CDC.

The dredge pipeline corridor as seen from the shoreline. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A sand corridor between the spur and groove formation of the reef. The restoration effort focused on keeping coral fragments off the reef floor and out of the sand corridors where they would become abraded and scoured. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A river corridor along the Iowa River in Iowa County. Credit: Unknown.

Livestock move through a fenced corridor to a central waterer as part of a rotational grazing system in Washington County, Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Hydraulic engineer Doug Shields (right) and student research assistant Rick Rauteux observe changes in channel geometry and stream corridor habitats caused by water rushing over a headcut. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Mid Winter forest scene in the Mollala Corridor. Credit: John Craig.

U.S. Air Force. Hospital, Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, La. : Interior view- Corridor to Ward 4. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U. S. Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : North corridor during rush period. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Private dining-room of the White House, and the family sitting-room at the end of the long upstairs corridor. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Monsieur Madeleine sat musing, listening to his firm and resolute step as it died away along the corridor.

But when he had passed the old servant on the landing and was again in the low narrow dark corridor he began to walk faster and faster

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Business

The Tijuana-Ensenada corridor represents 75 percent of the hotel supply and attracts 60 percent of the tourists. (references)

Corridor I leads from German border (Dresden) through Decin-Praha-Ceska Trebova-Brno-Breclav to the Austrian border (Vienna) and Slovakia. (references)

By the year 2015 the United Nations predicts that the Beijing / Tianjin corridor will be the “world’s largest megalopolis” with a population of 36.4 million people. (references)

Children

Mozambique

In Sofala province, where child prostitution exists along the Beira development corridor (frequented by truck drivers and businessmen), the Government operates information centers in affected areas to provide information to families and friends of children who are raped and exploited, and counsels them on how to deal with the police, public prosecutors, and judges. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

In September 2000, the PUCL reported that Bangalore police arrested 30 persons peacefully demanding access to public information on construction of the Bangalore-Mysore information corridor. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Both act as East-West transport corridor gateways of Bulgaria. (references)

Political Economy

Turkey

While there is still work to be done, we are making progress on achieving a major national security objective by establishing a non-Iranian, non-Russian export corridor for Central Asian and Caspian energy. (references)

Turkey

Ongoing efforts between the United States and Turkey to develop a strategic East-West energy transport corridor, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline and the Trans-Caspian pipeline moved forward in summer 2001 when a U.S. company was awarded an oversight contract for the design and engineering phase of the Turkish portion of the BTC pipeline. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Working together with the U.S. Commercial Service and the Department of State, the Center's efforts also focus on supporting American participation in projects related to the East-West Transportation Corridor, and the ancillary infrastructure that will be built as a result of these energy projects. (references)

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Expressions using "corridor": air corridor ♦ aircraft climb corridor ♦ corridor train. Additional references.

Beginning with "corridor": corridor-like.

Ending with "corridor": winged-corridor.

Arabic 

‏مجاز الحجرات, ‏مجاز (allegory, figure, image, imagery, metaphor, passage, path, track, way), ‏الرواق, ‏رواق (arcade, gallery, hall, hallway, lobby, loftiness, passage, porch), ‏دهليز (gallery, lobby, passage, passageway, vestibule). (various references)

Basque

pasabide (foot-bridge). (various references)

Bulgarian 

коридор (coulisse, hall, hallway, lobby, passage, passageway, vestibule). (various references)

Catalan

passadís (aisle, passage). (various references)

Chinese 

走廊 (piazza, veranda). (various references)

Cornish

tremenva. (various references)

Czech

chodbièka (aisle, gangway), chodba (gallery, hall, hallway, passage), ulièka (aisle, alley). (various references)

Danish

korridor (passage), gang (occasion, passage, time). (various references)

Dutch

gang (gallery, passage), overloop (passage), baan (course, function, job, office, orbit, passage, path, post, race-course, road, route, running track, track, trajectory, way, width). (various references)

Esperanto

koridoro (passage). (various references)

Faeroese

gong (hallway, passage). (various references)

Farsi 

راهرو (Aisle, Door, Doorway, Gallery, Gangway, Passage, Passageway, Pylon, Runway, Vestibule), راه سرپوشیده , دهلیز (Vestibule), دالان (Hall, Porch). (various references)

Finnish

välikkö (passage), liikennekäytävä, korridori, käytävä (passage, path, walk). (various references)

French

couloir (couloir), corridor. (various references)

Galician

pasillo. (various references)

German

Korridor (hall, hallway, lobby, passage, passageway), Gang (aisle, ambulation, arcade, bout, canal, colonnade, course, development, duct, errand, gait, gallery, gang, gangway, gear, hallway, heat, landing, lode, meatus, operation, pace, passage, passage(way), passageway, reef, running, speed, stride, thread, tunnel, vein, walk, walkway), Flur (field, hall, hallway, landing, lea, lobby, mead, meadow, open fields, passage). (various references)

Greek 

διάδρομος (aisle, passage way). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסדרון (foyer, hall, hallway, lobby, passageway, vestibule), פרוזדור (antechamber, hall, hallway, passage, vestibule), איתון (entrance, portal), אכסדרה (patio, porch, portico, terrace). (various references)

Hungarian

folyosó (aisle, course, gangway, hallway, passage, passageway, portico). (various references)

Indonesian

lorong sempit, gang (alley, alleyway, breezeway, gang, gangway, narrow street, passage, passageway, slum). (various references)

Italian

corridoio (aisle, gangway, hall, hallway, lobby, passage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

廊下, 回廊 (gallery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほろう (gallery, passageway, platform), かいろう (gallery, growing old together), ろうか (ageing, beacon, senile deterioration, signal fire). (various references)

Korean 

복도 (hallway). (various references)

Luxembourgish

gank. (various references)

Manx

corradoyr. (various references)

Pig Latin

orridorcay.(various references)

Portuguese

corredor (access, ambulatory, gallery, hall, highroad crossing, lobby, passage, passageway, racer, runner, runner-up, running, runny, starter). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

corredor. (various references)

Romanian

culoar (hall, Lane, lobby), coridor (gallery, gangway, hall, hallway, Lane, lobby, pass, passage, passage way), galerie (ambulatory, audience, backers, gallery, loft, road, supporters, tunnel). (various references)

Russian 

коридор (aisle, hallway, passage, passageway). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koridor (passage), hodnik (couloir, foyer, hall, hallway, passage, passageway). (various references)

Spanish

pasillo (aisle, gangway, hall, Lane, lobby, passage, passageway, promenade, way), corredor (agent, broker, crier, death row, finger, galloping, hall, jobber, passage, racer, runner, starter). (various references)

Swedish

korridor (alley, areaway, hall, hallway, lobby, passage, passageway). (various references)

Turkish

koridor (aisle, hall, hallway, passage, passageway, vista), geçit (access, aisle, alley, alleyway, causeway, close, crossing, crossover, gangway, gap, gate, gateway, gorge, gullet, gut, parade, pass, passage, passageway, runway, Strait, thoroughfare, vestibule, walkway), dehliz (cloister, gallery, passage, vestibule, vista). (various references)

Turkmen 

koridor (r) (hall). (various references)

Ukrainian

коридор (aisle, alley, alleyway, hallway, passage). (various references)

andron, andronico, andronicum. (various references)

corridore. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "corridor": corridors. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Corridor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cerrado, coridor, corrider, corrido, Corridon, Corvidae, Cridmore, currior, cursitor. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: coir, cord, door, dorr, odic, odor, ordo, rood.

-5 letters: cod, coo, cor, doc, dor, orc, rid, roc, rod.

+1 letter: corridors.

+5 letters: videorecorder.