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Lobby vs Vestibule - What's the difference?

lobby | vestibule |

As nouns the difference between lobby and vestibule

is that lobby is an entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor while vestibule is a passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building.

As a verb lobby

is to attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.

lobby

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *(term), from , from (etyl) or (etyl).

Noun

(lobbies)
  • An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
  • I had to wait in the lobby for hours before seeing the doctor.
  • That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
  • A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
  • The influence of the tobacco lobby has decreased considerably in the US.
  • (video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
  • (nautical) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
  • A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
  • Derived terms
    * gun lobby

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.
  • For years, pro-life groups have continued to lobby hard for restrictions on abortion.
  • * 2002 , (Jim Hightower), in
  • The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
  • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) scouse (from lobscouse)
  • * My mam cooked us lobby for tea last night.
  • vestibule

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building.
  • * 1813 , , Volume 3, Chapter 9,
  • Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule ; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.
  • * 1913', '' ,
  • 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.
  • * 1929 April, ,
  • 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.
  • (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
  • * 1912 , Electric railway journal , Volume XL, Number 14, page 556,
  • The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door.
  • (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, page 333,
  • 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.
  • * 1920 , Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, paranasal sinuses, nasolacrimal passageways, and olfactory organ in man; a genetic, developmental, and anatomico-physiological consideration , page 73,
  • The Vestibule' (vestibulum nasi). — The paired ' vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa.
  • * 2001 , René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Treatment , page 79,
  • 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 .

    Derived terms

    * vestibular * vestibuled * vestibule school

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