aisle

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aisle

passageway: The bride’s father escorted her down the aisle.

Not to be confused with:

I'll – contraction of I will.

isle – small island: The isle is only a short distance from shore.

aisle

(īl)

1. A part of a church divided laterally from the nave, transept, or choir by a row of columns.

2. A passageway between rows of seats, as in an auditorium or an airplane.

3. A passageway for inside traffic, as in a department store, warehouse, or supermarket.

[Alteration (influenced by isle French aile, wing) of Middle English ele, from Old French, wing of a building, from Latin āla.]

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aisle

(aɪl)

1. a passageway separating seating areas in a theatre, church, etc; gangway

2. (Architecture) a lateral division in a church flanking the nave or chancel

3. rolling in the aisles informal (of an audience) overcome with laughter

[C14 ele (later aile, aisle, through confusion with isle (island)), via Old French from Latin āla wing]

aisled adj

ˈaisleless adj

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aisle

(aɪl)

n.

1. a walkway between or along sections of seats, shelves, counters, etc., as in a theater, church, or department store.

2. a longitudinal division in a church, separated from the main area or nave by an arcade or the like.

Idioms:

in the aisles, (of an audience) convulsed with laughter.

[1350–1400; resp. (with ai < French) of earlier i(s)le, yle, late Middle English]

aisled, adj.

Aisle

Dialectal. double rows of wheat sheaves set up to dry.

Example: aisle of wheat, 1817.

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Noun	1.	aisle - a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods) passage - a way through or along which someone or something may pass
	2.	aisle - passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores gangway passageway - a passage between rooms or between buildings
	3.	aisle - part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

aisle

noun passageway, path, lane, passage, corridor, alley, gangway the frozen food aisle

rolling in the aisles roaring with laughter, giggling, chuckling, sniggering, cracking up (informal), chortling, guffawing, tittering, convulsed (informal), in stitches, busting a gut (informal), creasing up (informal), splitting your sides a host of comic talent which will have you rolling in the aisles

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pasillo corredor

aisle

[aɪl] N (Rel) → nave f (lateral); (in theatre, plane, train, coach, supermarket) → pasillo m
aisle seat → asiento m de pasillo
to walk up or down the aisle with sb (o.f.) → llevar al altar a algn
it had them rolling in the aisles → los tuvo muertos de (la) risa

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aisle

(ail) noun

a passage between rows of seats etc in a church, cinema etc. pasillo

aisle

→ pasillo

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

I'd like an aisle seat → Chtěl bych sedadlo do uličky → Ich möchte einen Platz am Gang → Quisiera un asiento de pasillo → Haluaisin käytäväpaikan → Je voudrais une place couloir → Želim sjedalo do prolaza → Vorrei un posto sul corridoio → 통로쪽 좌석이 좋아요 → Proszę miejsce przy przejściu → Eu queria um assento no corredor → Koltuğum koridor tarafında olsun → 我想要靠走道的座位

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Aunt Polly came, and Tom and Sid and Mary sat with her -- Tom being placed next the aisle, in order that he might be as far away from the open window and the seductive outside summer scenes as possible.

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The ceremony was to be solemnized according to the Episcopalian forms, and in open church, with a degree of publicity that attracted many spectators, who occupied the front seats of the galleries, and the pews near the altar and along the broad aisle. It had been arranged, or possibly it was the custom of the day, that the parties should proceed separately to church.

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In twos we entered the chamber and marched down the broad Aisle of Hope, as it is called, to the platform in the centre of the hall.

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Before them stretched a broad aisle lined on either side with soldiery, and as I looked there entered this aisle at the far end of the hall, the head of a procession which advanced to the foot of the throne.

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SEEING that his audiences were becoming smaller every Sunday, a Minister of the Gospel broke off in the midst of a sermon, descended the pulpit stairs, and walked on his hands down the central aisle of the church.

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Pete aggressively walked up a side aisle and took seats with Maggie at a table beneath the balcony.

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Hard by, the aisle of the church called the d'Urberville Aisle looked on imperturbably.

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The women at the boards near to her scrambled, first, to the hot iron to save the cloth, and then to her, while the forewoman hurried belligerently down the aisle. The women farther away continued unsteadily at their work, losing movements to the extent of a minute's set-back to the totality of the efficiency of the fancy-starch room.

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When the clock began to strike, a burly professor entered, was received with a round of applause, moved swiftly down the center aisle, said "Gentlemen," and began to talk as he climbed his pulpit steps; and by the time he had arrived in his box and faced his audience, his lecture was well under way and all the pens were going.

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It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms.

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But they saw only the empty centre aisle. He saw the young tough lurching down that aisle and wondered if he would remove the stiff-rim which never yet had he seen him without.

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"That's Gilbert Blythe sitting right across the aisle from you, Anne.

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