gangway
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
government
lifestyle
nautical
politics
transport
Etymology: From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”).
Compound parts: gang
way
Inflected forms:
form: gangways
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gangways
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gangwaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gangwayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gangwayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A passageway through which to enter or leave.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: The new fleet of trains comes with widened gangways and improved seating.
gloss: A passageway through which to enter or leave.
pos: noun
tags: UK
broadly
gloss: A passageway through which to enter or leave.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Morris then allegedly tried to flee into a gangway between the bar and another building, closing a gate on an officer as he did
gloss: An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.
pos: noun
examples: We came over on the usual mid-morning service from Victoria and this time, as we came down the gangway of the Invicta, the Shedmaster at Calais, M. Leclerc, and Henri Dutertre were waiting for us.
Like a lot of my fellow passengers — indie-rock fans who had signed up for a three-day voyage full of bands and beverages — I’d never been on a cruise before. So I don’t know whether most of them begin with a staff member high-fiving each and every person who comes off the gangway.
gloss: A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck.
pos: noun
gloss: A passage through the side of a ship or an opening in the railing through which the ship may be boarded; (also in later use) a jet bridge.
pos: noun
gloss: A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
obsolete
rare
gloss: An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
pos: noun
gloss: To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.
pos: verb
examples: He gangwayed his way through the crowd, and just as the clock struck midnight, he was standing in front of NBC's camera on national TV as the governor-elect of Minnesota and the first Reform Party candidate ever to be elected to high office.
They're conducting phone conversations without speaking into the wrong end of their mobiles, or gangwaying to the Gents without tripping over, or turning the pages of a newspaper without blacking adjacent eyes.
Here also of exceptional value were the half-dozen dueling codes published after 1880, gangwaying a detailed analysis in chapter II of the manner in which duels unfolded, and dozens of French sources which formed the core of a chapter on the French duel.
gloss: Make way! Clear a path!
pos: intj
examples: And he pushed his way through the crowd crying, "Gangway, gangway!" and dragging Jane and Michael after him.
Lemme at 'im! Lemme at 'im! I'll get 'im, Babbitt! Gangway, I'll moidalize him!
Related words: gangplank
gangboard
Derived words: below the gangway
gangwayed
gangwayman
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: проход
roman: prohod
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 過道 /过道
roman: guòdào
lang: Czech
word: ulička
lang: Danish
word: gang
lang: Danish
word: passage
lang: Finnish
word: käytävä
lang: Finnish
word: kulkutie
lang: French
word: passerelle
lang: French
word: passage
lang: Georgian
word: გასასვლელი
roman: gasasvleli
lang: Georgian
word: გასავალი
roman: gasavali
lang: German
word: Gang
lang: German
word: Gangway
lang: Italian
word: corridoio
lang: Japanese
word: 舷門
roman: genmon
lang: Japanese
word: 通路
roman: tsūro
lang: Korean
word: 통로
roman: tongno
lang: Polish
word: przejście
lang: Portuguese
word: passagem
lang: Portuguese
word: passadiço
lang: Russian
word: прохо́д
roman: proxód
lang: Spanish
word: corredor
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دهلیز
roman: dehliz, dihliz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آرالق
roman: aralık