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Terrace vs Corridor - What's the difference?

terrace | corridor |

As nouns the difference between terrace and corridor

is that terrace is a platform that extends outwards from a building while corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see Wikipedia).

As a verb terrace

is to provide something with a terrace.

As a proper noun Terrace

is a city in British Columbia, Canada.

terrace

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A platform that extends outwards from a building.
  • *
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace , explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
  • A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
  • (in the plural, chiefly, British) The standing area at a football ground.
  • (chiefly, Indian English) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.

    • Related terms

    * terra * terracotta * terrain * terrene * terrestrial * terrier * territorial * territory

    See also

    * (l)

    Verb

    (terrac)
  • To provide something with a terrace.
  • To form something into a terrace.

    • Anagrams

    *

    corridor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).
  • *
  • *: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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , section=chapter 1/1, title= 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.}}
  • A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
  • Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

    • Derived terms

    * the corridors of power *