alley vs turnpike

alley

noun
  • A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings. 

  • The area between the outfielders. 

  • Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length. 

  • A passageway between rows of pews in a church. 

  • A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes. 

  • The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office. 

  • An establishment where bowling is played. 

  • The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches. 

  • A glass marble or taw. 

  • An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled. 

turnpike

noun
  • A toll road, especially a toll expressway. 

  • A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function. 

  • A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid, 

  • A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. 

  • A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise. 

  • A winding stairway. 

verb
  • To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road. 

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