corridor

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Passage long et étroit dans un bâtiment, avec des portes donnant sur des pièces.

En anglais simple : A long, narrow space inside a building, with doors leading to rooms.

• My room is at the end of the corridor.
• We walked down a narrow corridor.
• The school corridors were full of children.

Synonymes : hallway, passage, hall

Expressions courantes : long corridor, hospital corridor, along the corridor, corridor door

corridor

Bande étroite de terrain laissée libre pour permettre aux personnes ou aux animaux de passer entre deux lieux.

En anglais simple : A narrow area of land kept open so people or animals can move between two places.

• The corridor allows animals to reach the forest.
• Aid workers opened a safe corridor across the border.
• These wildlife corridors connect areas of protected land.

Synonymes : passage, route

Expressions courantes : wildlife corridor, humanitarian corridor, safe corridor, land corridor

corridor, axe

Zone de terrain qui longe une route importante, un fleuve ou une voie ferrée.

En anglais simple : An area of land along a major road, river, or railway.

• New shops are opening along the road corridor.
• Housing has spread across the rail corridor.
• The council plans to protect the river corridor.

Expressions courantes : rail corridor, river corridor, transport corridor, commercial corridor

couloir aérien

Zone du ciel réservée au passage des avions.

En anglais simple : An area of the sky set aside for aircraft to travel through.

• The plane followed an air corridor.
• Pilots must stay inside the approved corridor.
• Two flight corridors pass above the coast.

Synonymes : air route

Expressions courantes : air corridor, flight corridor, designated corridor