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gangway

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gangway.

Editorial note

But it did look like what would later be known as a laptop as you carried it up the gangway.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A passageway through which to enter or leave.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gangway gathered in one view.

noun

A passageway through which to enter or leave.

verb

To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.

noun

(UK, Ireland) An aisle between rows of seating (especially in a train, aircraft or auditorium).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gangway.

verb

To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.

noun

(UK, Ireland) An aisle between rows of seating (especially in a train, aircraft or auditorium).

noun

(nautical) An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.

Example sentences

1

But it did look like what would later be known as a laptop as you carried it up the gangway.

2

There were no spare bulbs tucked away somewhere, no pile of twofers left on a gangway.

3

AI is always bad at trains, I'm sure if the picture was wider there would be no gangway.

4

Would you rather stand on a runway/in a gangway tunnel/sit in a plane seat as opposed to sitting in an airport waiting lounge?

5

Or put them on the gangway to be crushed by the card.

6

I'll step off the gangway with a personal example: I did not know much about abortion a few years ago.

7

I guess there will be a gangway route to take between all these spots, eventually.

8

Often I get my boarding pass scanned and go stand in line on the gangway.

9

They're not customers again until they're walking up the gangway..

10

The width of the gangway is still two swords lengths, so they cannot engage swords across it, and the cloak rooms outside still have ribbons intended for you to hang your sword before entering the chamber.

11

If you saw me going up the gangway with it like everybody else does with their laptop today, you probably would have thought nothing of it.

12

But I claim that, for example, you can't realistically have a 737 layout that isn't 6 seats wide in coach — and that means the width of your coach seats will be whatever width fits 6 seats plus one gangway.

Quote examples

1

Some designs offset the driver's cab so that a gangway for passengers fits through the "nose" of the train when it's connected.

2

Also, the "open gangway" design in combination with the other improvements (wider doors, collapsible seats) will reduce crowding on trains, which in turn reduces crowding on platforms and dwell time.

3

I wish I could vote against you more than once, Cuomo Edit 2: To be fair, there is one useful feature of the new trains: More space to pack more passengers with the "open gangway" design.

4

Seems not: "A jet bridge (also termed jetway, jetwalk, airgate, gangway, aerobridge/airbridge, skybridge, airtube, or its official industry name passenger boarding bridge (PBB)) is an enclosed, movable connector which most commonly extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane"

Proper noun examples

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How does this compare with things like Dex+Gangway?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use gangway in a sentence?

But it did look like what would later be known as a laptop as you carried it up the gangway.

What does gangway mean?

A passageway through which to enter or leave.

What part of speech is gangway?

gangway is commonly used as noun, verb.