different between corridor vs juncture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k????d??(?)/, /?k????d?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: kôr??dôr', IPA^(key): /?k????d??/

Noun

corridor (plural corridors)

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
3. (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
4. Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

Derived terms

• the corridors of power
• non-corridor, noncorridor
• Northeast Corridor
• Polish Corridor

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian corridore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?i.d??/

Noun

corridor m (plural corridors)

1. passage, corridor

Further reading

• “corridor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin i?nct?ra. Doublet of jointure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???k.t??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d???k.t??/, /?d???k.??/

Noun

juncture (plural junctures)

1. A place where things join, a junction.
2. A critical moment in time.

   We're at a crucial juncture in our relationship.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

     What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clodhopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
3. (linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.

Usage notes

In highly formal or bureaucratic language, "at this juncture" is often used to mean “now”:

Translations

Latin

Participle

j?nct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of j?nct?rus