Corridor vs Ambulatory - What's the difference?
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A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors . Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
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Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
* Sir H. Wotton
(comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
* Jeremy Taylor
(legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
Corridor is a related term of ambulatory.
As nouns the difference between corridor and ambulatory
is that corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ) while ambulatory is the round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.As an adjective ambulatory is
of, relating to, or adapted to walking.corridor
English
Noun
(en noun)Death Walks in Eastrepps, passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
Derived terms
* the corridors of power *ambulatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ambulatory exercise
- The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
- an ambulatory patient
- an ambulatory electrocardiogram
- ambulatory medical care
- an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
- The priesthood before was very ambulatory , and dispersed into all families.
- The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.