Street vs. Alley
Difference Between Street and Alley
Streetnoun
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
Walk down the street.Alleynoun
A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley.Streetnoun
A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.Alleynoun
(baseball) The area between the outfielders.
He hit one deep into the alley.Streetnoun
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
Alleynoun
(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
Streetnoun
The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
Alleynoun
(tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
Streetnoun
(slang) Street talk or slang.
Alleynoun
A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
Streetnoun
(figuratively) A great distance.
He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.Alleynoun
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
Streetnoun
(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
Alleynoun
(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
Streetnoun
Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug
I got some pot cheap on the street.Alleynoun
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
Streetnoun
(attributive) Living in the streets.
Street cat.Street urchin.Alleynoun
A glass marble or taw.
Streetnoun
(urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.
Alleynoun
a narrow street with walls on both sides
Streetadjective
(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
Alleynoun
a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
Streetverb
To build or equip with streets.
Streetverb
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
Streetverb
To heavily defeat.
Streetverb
To go on sale.
Streetverb
To proselytize in public.
Streetnoun
a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings;
they walked the streets of the small townhe lives on Nassau StreetStreetnoun
the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel;
be careful crossing the streetStreetnoun
the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction;
she tried to keep her children off the streetStreetnoun
a situation offering opportunities;
he worked both sides of the streetcooperation is a two-way streetStreetnoun
people living or working on the same street;
the whole street protested the absence of street lights
