noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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He has always been something of a loner. restlessly exploring different avenues of improvisation.
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Payne suggests several different avenues of action for proponents of psychodynamic social work.
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Different documents have different qualities and offer different avenues for discussion and investigation.
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The developer may follow a number of different avenues in his pursuit for suitable land.
long
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At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air.
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You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees.
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The long avenue is still lined with the iron-laced pubs of the gold rush days, with their wooden verandahs.
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The Parc Hotel stood at the end of a long , wide avenue Soseaua Kiseleff.
main
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I successfully blocked one of the main avenues they were exploring.
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The research will pursue two main avenues of inquiry.
new
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The promise of test-tube fusion could open up new avenues for them.
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Instead, punk gave metal merchants a new avenue to enter the music world.
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Communications are short and publication is rapid, providing information on new avenues of research in the shortest possible time.
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But it opens up new , practical avenues to explore.
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Of course, this simplest first step opens whole new avenues to explore about how we pay for services.
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We are open to new methods, new research, new avenues of inquiry.
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And Oz's response was to draw further out to explore new avenues .
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They can not explore new avenues for cancer research if there is not sufficient funding to buy equipment or pay scientists.
other
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Imprisonment is a harsh measure that should be used only when every other reasonable avenue has failed.
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We hope that the review will also invite individual submissions through your pages and other media avenues .
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So we've been left with no other avenue but to go to law.
possible
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But media lawyers said there are other possible avenues for mounting a renewed First Amendment attack on the ban.
wide
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About five blocks arriba from the Hotelito they cross a wide , deserted avenue that might be a main street.
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It was situated in a wide , tree-lined avenue in what she took to be the smarter part of Richmond.
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She drove down the wide west London avenue .
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It was not just the new layout of wide avenues and boulevards, the greenery, the light and the air.
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The Parc Hotel stood at the end of a long, wide avenue Soseaua Kiseleff.
■ VERB
explore
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He has always been something of a loner. restlessly exploring different avenues of improvisation.
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A less intelligent and less secure judge might have permitted the defense to explore these avenues .
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He's determined to explore all the avenues open to him, including writing folky and pastoral stuff.
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And Oz's response was to draw further out to explore new avenues .
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They can not explore new avenues for cancer research if there is not sufficient funding to buy equipment or pay scientists.
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It can provide a chance to break loose and explore new avenues .
open
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The promise of test-tube fusion could open up new avenues for them.
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An aroma opens on to an avenue .
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Of course, this simplest first step opens whole new avenues to explore about how we pay for services.
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Julio points to a side street that opens on to the avenue directly across from them.
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In other words she herself is opening up avenues for all sorts of intuitive meanings.
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At best, training may open new avenues or provide contacts which may lead to employment interviews.
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And it's likely the commission will open up new avenues for the blacksmith who taught himself everything he knows.
provide
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Communications are short and publication is rapid, providing information on new avenues of research in the shortest possible time.
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The magazine has provided Benetton with an avenue to highlight issues, which their advertisements have touched on.
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In Britain also, several types of paraprofessional training programmes have been developed that provide useful avenues for career advancement.
pursue
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The research will pursue two main avenues of inquiry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sherman Avenue
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We explored every possible avenue , but still couldn't come up with a solution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In advancing the tenets of racism, Western theorists left no avenue of human potentiality and human activity untouched.
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Instead, punk gave metal merchants a new avenue to enter the music world.
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It's either an avenue or a road, right?
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On the dark avenue , not a car, not a lit window.
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The great avenues of live oaks meant to grace their approaches now just cast a damp shade.
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They drove through the gates and up the avenue of ancient lime trees.
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Whatever the reason, once the journey on that path is commenced, the martial artist can travel down many avenues.