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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
corridor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
▪ He paid, walked down a dark corridor and pushed through a curtain into a deep pool of sound and flickering light.
▪ Sometimes they peel off a long, dark corridor to the right and left.
▪ On the landing a soft light shone into the dark from the corridor, as in memory.
▪ Going down the outside steps he entered the dark basement corridor and listened.
▪ She spun around, searching the shadowy dark corridor.
▪ Lucien walked down endless dark corridors.
▪ Pale-faced doctors and nurses hurry along dark corridors.
▪ Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber.
endless
▪ Bernice continued to walk through the endless corridors.
▪ The huge structures have endless corridors, barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere.
▪ Along corridors, endless corridors, with doors on either side.
▪ It is easy to get lost in the endless corridors of its administra tive offices.
▪ They are depressing, alien environments, made more dismal by drab walls and endless corridors.
▪ Lucien walked down endless dark corridors.
▪ Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors, whose walls were punctuated by closed doors.
long
▪ When she was a young woman, she could hear distant laughter down long corridors, as she lay in her bed.
▪ Hence all the turbulence, all the restless energy, the endless traveling along streets and long corridors.
▪ The paused at the entrance to the long corridor.
▪ I made my way through a long corridor toward the emergency room.
▪ They walked down a long corridor with heavy doors on both sides.
▪ The woman leads us down a long corridor of unvarnished cedar boards worn smooth by centuries of slippered feet.
▪ He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor.
▪ On most Fridays, friendly greetings echoed down the long, gleaming corridors.
main
▪ He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor.
▪ It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle.
▪ From then on there were two grandfather clocks at either end of the main corridor, one wood and one metal.
▪ He crept slowly towards the main corridors.
▪ Then the angry dancing glare of fire lit up the darkness from further back along the main corridor.
▪ They had reached the main corridor when a hand touched her shoulder.
▪ With the blood specimen in his left hand ... he started along the main corridor on his way toward the stairs.
narrow
▪ She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge.
▪ The stewardess came walking up the narrow corridor to the right of the closely spaced seats.
▪ They travelled by a short stairway from the morning room, up into a narrow corridor carved with horses' heads.
▪ He nodded their way and walked past into the narrow corridor that led to his section.
▪ A long narrow corridor ran down the middle of the building with doors leading off it.
▪ Beyond the door was a narrow corridor that led off to the right.
▪ Lungs pounding out torrents of frozen breath, we speed down narrow forest corridors, then burst into dazzling clearings.
▪ Suddenly, two girls fall laughing out of the Ladies into the narrow corridor.
wide
▪ Upstairs the bedrooms ranged either side of the wide straight corridors.
▪ We passed through an archway to the right and into a wide corridor with rooms opening off at intervals.
▪ A marble staircase leads to wide corridors of bedrooms, which are comfortably furnished and equipped with modern bathrooms.
▪ They banished all visitors or divided them from campers with a wide corridor set off by ropes.
▪ From this time we can probably date the development of Banbury Lane as a road rather than a wide corridor.
▪ The end of the wide corridor was guarded by double doors with a warning symbol on either side of them.
▪ Exhibition mounted in a wide corridor adjacent to the hall.
▪ She went outside to the wide corridor.
■ NOUN
hotel
▪ I open the door into the hotel corridor.
▪ Doors slam along hotel corridors and bathrooms fill with steam.
▪ William coming along the hotel corridor.
▪ Smoke detectors installed in hotel corridors have an alarming ability not to detect smoke.
wall
▪ The wind caught Creed and the girl and slammed them back against the corridor wall.
▪ Before he could think, I spun junior around, pushed him against the corridor wall, and frisked him.
▪ A devilish Maxwell put this cartoon on a corridor wall.
▪ The corridor walls are covered in photographs; barrel-bellied women with scrunched-up faces strain to deliver, post-birth beatific smiles radiate satisfaction.
▪ They collided with the corridor wall, Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer's wrist.
▪ Quickly they moved out of sight, flattening themselves against the corridor walls to either side of the short passage.
▪ She was leaning against the corridor wall, stunned.
▪ Something was trying to pull itself of the corridor wall.
■ VERB
follow
▪ He beckoned Corbett to follow him along whitewashed corridors to the herb scented chamber of Brother Thomas.
▪ He followed Tammuz up the corridor into his office and accepted a plastic cup of lukewarm killer coffee.
hurry
▪ On impulse she hurried down the corridor to her daughter's room and carefully opened the door a fraction.
▪ He hurried down the corridor to the music-room.
▪ The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
▪ At a nod from the chaprassi, he hurried away into the corridors within.
▪ Pale-faced doctors and nurses hurry along dark corridors.
▪ As if to avoid meeting her, Agnes hurried out into the corridor.
▪ The little girl, in shorts and a shirt, hurrying down the corridor.
▪ As she hurried down a long corridor, her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night.
lead
▪ It led into a corridor, lined with doors.
▪ She paused in the doorway leading to the grey corridor that ran across the back of the house.
▪ He led them along corridors and walkways until they came to a double set of metal-barred gates.
▪ He led me into a corridor.
move
▪ Sucking in a lungful of cold air, Piper moved once more down the corridor.
▪ She opened the door and watched him move off down the corridor.
▪ They moved up the corridor, their footfalls against the bare boards sending out hollow echoes.
▪ I moved down the corridor, as instructed, and rounded the elevators to the bank on the far side.
▪ He moved down the corridor and around the corner, where two more armed guards stood, alert, against either wall.
▪ I asked, moving into the corridor.
▪ Each was a hi-tech header from Nigel Mottashed, moving through the central corridor.
pass
▪ From their conversation, as they passed down the corridor, they were well pleased with the advice they had received.
▪ When he passed Stella in the corridor she could smell scented soap.
▪ Finally, they passed into a carpeted corridor and then through a regular wooden door into a small office.
▪ Thereafter, if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase, those eyes registered no recognition.
▪ They passed each other in the corridor soon afterwards, and each could see that the other had been crying.
▪ Do you remember a male nurse you passed in the corridor.
▪ We could have passed in the corridor.
run
▪ Being told to do things like not run in the corridor, or stand up when the governor comes in.
▪ Before Bernice could reply, Ell had walked past the red paralysis and had started to run down the corridor.
▪ I ran out into the corridor.
▪ Leonore ran down the corridor to the kitchens, slamming through the double doors in a panic.
▪ They raced up the steps, reaching the first deck, wheeled round, and ran down the corridor.
▪ She ran back into the corridor and back towards the service lift.
▪ Catherine heard that Henry was praying in the royal chapel so ran screaming down the corridor.
▪ The guard was running in the corridor.
stand
▪ We weren't hurting anyone or upsetting anyone, it wasn't as if we stood in the corridor kissing and cuddling.
▪ The door closed, and I stood in the corridor, trying to look inconspicuous.
▪ She was standing in the corridor, crying and alone.
▪ The three were standing in a corridor when police arrived.
▪ He stands in the corridor for six minutes.
▪ But on the other hand she couldn't stand out in the corridor indefinitely.
▪ They were standing listening in the corridor.
stride
▪ Rohmer and Duvall strode away down the corridor with Gilbert close behind.
▪ He heard her mocking laugh as, arm in arm with her sister, she strode off down the corridor.
▪ Cardiff strode down the corridor towards them, followed by Lawrence.
▪ A triumphant smile lit his perspiring face as he strode along the corridor to the kitchen.
▪ She stood looking after him as he strode down the corridor towards the opposite end of the house.
▪ She could hear footsteps striding along the corridor behind her.
▪ She thought, in a moment he will be gone, striding along the corridor, out of sight.
walk
▪ Bernice continued to walk through the endless corridors.
▪ He walked the corridors past enormous paintings of Heroes of the Soviet.
▪ Normally, when you're walking along the corridor, and you meet me, you see my face, right?
▪ I told him how important it is to get up once or twice each day, to walk in the corridors.
▪ They walked down a long corridor with heavy doors on both sides.
▪ The stewardess came walking up the narrow corridor to the right of the closely spaced seats.
▪ But of course, I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor, it never did hurt nowadays.
▪ I still felt nauseated, both sweating and shivering, as we walked down the corridor to my room.
wander
▪ He missed wandering about the corridors but the thought of walking made his feet throb and ache even more.
▪ At six, I wandered out into the corridor.
▪ He wandered along the brighter corridors near Nettles looking for a good place to plant his seeds.
▪ He shakes his head again in horror and wanders back along the corridor in silence.
▪ It seemed Blunset was still wandering through the corridors and Endill looked forward to their next meeting.
▪ So I wandered round the corridors of Hampton Court.
▪ The Doctor had wandered along a shadowy corridor.
▪ Could I really be replaced so easily, I wondered as I left the toilets and wandered out into the corridor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A corridor led from the old schoolrooms to a modern building.
▪ The Northeast corridor from Washington to Boston is Amtrak's busiest region.
▪ This industrial corridor connects Queretaro with Mexico City.
▪ We were led down a long corridor in the airport terminal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Desmond Fairchild and Dotty Blundell were heard arguing in the corridor, though no one could be sure what was at issue.
▪ Once properly tagged and escorted, the visitor passes the initial checkpoint and walks along a corridor into the Headquarters Building lobby.
▪ She kept giving lifts to boys in the corridors and provided chairs for those standing in the queues.
▪ The twin doors sighed open, and Manville stepped slowly out into the corridor.
▪ They moved up the corridor, their footfalls against the bare boards sending out hollow echoes.
▪ You will not believe how many elevators you will go lip, how many corridors you will walk down.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corridor

Corridor \Cor"ri*dor\ (k?r"r?-d?r or -d?r), n. [F., fr. Itt. corridpore, or Sp. corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere to run. See Course.]

  1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

  2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [R.]

  3. any relatively narrow passageway or route, such as a strip of land through a foreign territory.

  4. a densely populated stretch of land; as, the Northeast corridor, extending from Richmond, Virginia into Maine.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
corridor

1590s, from French corridor (16c.), from Italian corridore "a gallery," literally "a runner," from correre "to run," from Latin currere (see current (adj.)). Originally of fortifications, meaning "long hallway" is first recorded 1814.

Wiktionary
corridor

n. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corridor%20(rail%20vehicle)).

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WordNet
corridor

n. an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

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Corridor

Corridor or The Corridor may refer to:

Corridor (comics)

Corridor is an Indian graphic novel, written and illustrated by Sarnath Banerjee, set in contemporary Delhi. A shop owner by the name of Jehangir Rangoonwalla interacts with other residents of Delhi that all visit his shop.

Corridor (collection)

Corridor is a 1999 collection of short stories by Alfian Sa'at, all set in present-day Singapore. It received a Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award for 1998. It was first published by SNP Editions in 1999, and republished by Ethos Books in 2015.

Corridor (Via Rail)

The Corridor is a Via Rail passenger train service area in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

Corridor is used by Via to refer to all Via inter-city passenger trains which start and end within the geographic region known as the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. Other inter-city trains from outside the Corridor may have their terminus at stations in the Corridor, such as the Canadian and the Ocean, but are marketed by their respective train names and are not considered to be Corridor services.

The Corridor service area has the heaviest passenger train frequency in Canada, with 36 Via trains traversing the route daily. About 67% of Via's revenue comes from Corridor routes.

Via runs a mix of local-service and express trains in the Corridor. Most of the trackage is owned by CN, although Via also owns three former freight lines, one from Smiths Falls, Ontario to Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec via Ottawa; one from Chatham, Ontario to Tecumseh, Ontario; and one from Smiths Falls to Brockville, Ontario.

Prior to Via's formation in 1978, CN Rail operated trains on the same tracks and CP Rail also offered limited service.

All trains are identified by number; however, in previous schedules these trains were named as well.

Corridor (album)

Corridor is the eighteenth studio album by Japanese pop singer Miki Imai, released on November 25, 2009. It is her first studio album in 3 years. It debuted at #61 on the weekly Oricon albums chart with 2,926 units sold.

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Usage examples of "corridor".

She knew that as she stood with the closing door at her back, facing the brightly lit hospital corridor, abustle now with flower-laden visitors with apprehensive eyes and determined, painted-on smiles.

The pickets held back, but they watched him intently and closely, and as he stepped away from them down the corridor, following Adelaide, they stalked after him with hard and humorless faces.

Petrie took Adelaide by the arm, and led her down the corridor to the stairs.

GMT Corridor 1, Operations level Bouddica Alpha According to Inge, Adler, the PRF leader, had told Johann he was going up to Ops after getting a phone call.

Doors lined the corridor, one on the right marked with a sign showing three gold stars on a blue field, the letters below spelling adm m.

I found in the room of books, when suddenly I noticed that the pages had begun turning, the lamps were lighting, and, sure enough, down the corridor, the eye-tipped feather fans were waving in salutation as Aman Akbar strode through the arches and pillars beyond.

However, I am convinced that as we move back through geophysical time so we re-enter the amnionic corridor and move back through spinal and archaeopsychic time, recollecting in our unconscious minds the landscapes of each epoch, each with a distinct geological terrain, its own unique flora and fauna, as recognisable to anyone else as they would be to a traveller in a Wellsian time machine.

The only thing Obi-Wan could hear was the steady, mechanical hum of the sublight engines, a sound that em- anated from the main engine room at the left end of the corridor.

She followed Arion as he turned down another corridor, trying to ignore the nearly nude bodies of his crew, and their blatant stares.

His eyes were fixed on her as though he had heard her coming along the outer corridor and had been expecting her.

Each morning for the past nine years Torlyri had made the same journey, when the silent signal came through the eye of the hatch to tell her that the sun had entered the sky: out of the cocoon by the sky-side, up and up through the interior of the cliff along the winding maze of steep narrow corridors that led toward the crest, and at last to the flat area at the top, the Place of Going Out, where she would perform the rite that was her most important responsibility to the People.

I can say with certainty is that I awoke suddenly to find that I was being carried along a panelled corridor to the accompaniment of hushed voices.

She was awoken in the middle of the night of August 2 and taken from the Temple to the Conciergerie, where she occupied a room about eleven feet by six feet off the main ground-floor corridor and directly next to the two gendarmes who were responsible for guarding her at all times.

A walk down the corridor of Azteca Sal, a seat in the midst of confusion.

Waiting until the third pizza and its plate exploded against the door to the lavatory, he stepped back into the corridor.