corridor vs staircase

corridor

noun
  • A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage. 

  • Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft. 

  • The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. 

  • The land near an important road, river, railway line 

  • A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places. 

staircase

noun
  • A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell. 

  • A flight of stairs; a stairway. 

  • A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next. 

verb
  • To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps. 

  • To increase one's share in a co-ownership. 

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