Corridor vs Cloister - 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.
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
# such arcade in a monastery
# such arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
(figuratively) The monastic life
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with (a) cloister(s).
To protect or isolate.
As nouns the difference between corridor and cloister
is that corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see Wikipedia) while cloister is a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially.As a verb cloister is
to become a Roman Catholic religious.corridor
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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 *cloister
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Alternative forms
* cloistre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cloistralVerb
(en verb)- ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it
