Foyer vs Atrium - What's the difference?
foyer | atrium |
A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.
The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
(UK) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.
(architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
(architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
(anatomy) Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
* {{quote-book, 1965, Janet Kircher Warter, Palynology of a Lignite of Lower Eocene (Wilcox) Age from Kemper County
, passage=Nexine 0.5? thick, separating from the sexine about 5? from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium .}}
As nouns the difference between foyer and atrium
is that foyer is a lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc while atrium is a central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.foyer
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(en noun)- We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the the play to start.
atrium
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(wikipedia atrium)Noun
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