Street vs. Alley

Street vs. Alley — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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.

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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 Street

Streetnoun

the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel;

be careful crossing the street

Streetnoun

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 street

Streetnoun

a situation offering opportunities;

he worked both sides of the streetcooperation is a two-way street

Streetnoun

people living or working on the same street;

the whole street protested the absence of street lights