英:['ɑ:rəweɪ]
美:['ɑrəweɪ]
英:['ɑ:rəweɪ]
美:['ɑrəweɪ]
ar·e·a·way
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noun
a sunken area in front of basement doors or windows allowing access from outside, or permitting light and air to pass through.
a narrow passageway between buildings.
The first known use of areaway was in 1848
arrow wormnoun
any of various small ocean animals that look like worms
arm1 of 3noun
a human upper limbespecially: the part between the shoulder and wrist
a corresponding limb of a lower vertebrate animal
something resembling an arm in shape or position the arm of a chair
an arm of the sea
power entry 1 sense 1a
the long arm of the law
sleeve sense 1
arm2 of 3verb
to provide with weapons
arm a regiment
to provide with a way of fighting, competing, or succeeding
armed herself with facts
to make ready for action or use
arm a bomb
arm3 of 3noun
weaponespecially: firearm
a branch of an army
a branch of the military forces
plural the designs on a shield or flag of a family or a government
actual fighting : warfare
a call to arms
military service
Armeniannoun
a member of a people native to Armenia
the Indo-European language of the Armenians
armadanoun
a large fleet of warships
a large force or group of usually moving things
an armada of fishing boats
Ariesnoun
the first sign of the zodiac see zodiac
a person whose sign of the zodiac is Aries
a group of stars between Pisces and Taurus usually pictured as a ram
argonautnoun
capitalized one of a band of heroes sailing with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece
paper nautilus
Argiveadjective
of or relating to the Greeks or Greece and especially to the city of Argos
argentitenoun
a dark gray mineral with a metallic luster that is a sulfide of silver and an ore of silver
areawaynoun
a sunken space providing entrance to and air and light for a basement
1 There are similar arches over the barred basement windows set in brick-lined areaways.
2 The creature had been cornered in the areaway between two banks of elevators and had climbed up the cage as high as he could go.
3 Let's jump down, run alongside the house by the areaway, and get out on the street.
4 As the driver set his gears and let the clutch in Garth reached through the areaway railing and fumbled about the sidewalk for the object.
5 The man skidded on the filthy alley surface as he turned into the areaway.
6 On she went, peering into dark corners, into the areaways, anywhere, everywhere, watching the silent prowling of cats, the intent rovings of stray dogs.
7 Bill heard his steps and concealed himself in the areaway.
8 Ten minutes later Mrs. Zwiebel recognized with a leaping heart his footsteps on the areaway.
9 Taber pushed out through the choked entrance to the areaway and went back up the street.
10 She undressed in the dark—a pale darkness relieved by a lighted window across the areaway.
11 The door to the house from the areaway was shaking to irregular, heavy blows, which stopped as Alan reached the lower hallway; the shouts continued still a moment more.
12 "Uh-huh!" says I. "Then open that window and throw the whole lot into the areaway," says he.
13 Other common obstructions in the sidewalk were areaways at one or two basement windows and a rolling way with inclined double doors giving entrance from the street to the basement.
14 In dark doorways lounged these apparently couchless strangers; in areaways and alleys, on doorsteps they found shelter; in the main streets and the side streets they roamed.
15 He cursed as he tried to angle in the narrow areaway in order to get a clear shot.
16 He ran swiftly west, past the house on the corner, past the areaway where he had secreted himself last night, into Park Avenue, always on the course taken by the limousine.
17 She went out of the quarters, crossed the areaway, and stood under the landing slot.
18 “Obviously, the areaways are very old, and we’re learning that they’ve been in challenging condition for years,” said Williams, who intends to develop a long-term strengthening plan.
19 The buildings, with high stoops and sunken areaways, were of a depressing, tasteless similarity—doubtless cheap boarding-houses or dreary converted apartments.
20 All this while, across the street, in the shadow of an areaway, stood a man in a mackintosh and a felt hat drawn well down.