Concourse vs Vestibule - What's the difference?
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A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal.
A large group of people; a crowd.
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The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
* 1662 - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
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* Sir Isaac Newton
An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
(obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
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(architecture) A passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building.
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(rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
* 1912 , Electric railway journal , Volume XL, Number 14,
(senseid)(medicine, anatomy, by extension) Any of a number of body cavities, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.
* 1838 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 17-18,
* 1920 , Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, paranasal sinuses, nasolacrimal passageways, and olfactory organ in man; a genetic, developmental, and anatomico-physiological consideration ,
* 2001 , René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Treatment ,
As nouns the difference between concourse and vestibule
is that concourse is a large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal while vestibule is .concourse
English
Noun
(wikipedia concourse) (en noun)- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
- Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
- ... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...
- The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
- The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
- The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.
Usage notes
In sense "open space", particularly used of indoor spaces, by contrast with (m), (m), (m), etc. However, may be used for outdoor spaces as well, primarily high-traffic areas in front of a building.Coordinate terms
* (open space) (l), (l)vestibule
English
(wikipedia vestibule)Noun
(en noun)- Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule ; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.
- The purpose of the vestibule , at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-place for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside.
- Some instinct warned Armitage that what was taking place was not a thing for unfortified eyes to see, so he brushed back the crowd with authority as he unlocked the vestibule door.
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- The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door.
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- The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.
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- The Vestibule' (vestibulum nasi). — The paired ' vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa.
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- The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-defined vestibule .