lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: lain
Forms: form: lanes
Etymology: From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).
Senses: examples: text: Penny Lane
glosses: A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
raw_tags: used in street names
examples: text: There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.
text: Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra.
ref: c. 1930, Dominic Behan, “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”performed by The Wolfe Tones:
glosses: A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
glosses: A narrow road, as in the country.
examples: text: Drivers should overtake in the outside lane
text: We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway.
text: the exit lane
glosses: A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
examples: text: There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
examples: text: a swimming lane
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
examples: text: the checkout lanes in a supermarket
glosses: Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
examples: text: shipping lane
glosses: A course designated for ships or aircraft.
examples: text: We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
topics: video-games
glosses: In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
examples: text: And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The home stretch.
Synonyms: sense: thoroughfare
word: carriageway
sense: thoroughfare
word: direction
sense: thoroughfare
word: roadway
sense: thoroughfare
word: side
sense: narrow passageway
word: alley
Derived terms: acceleration lane
air lane
a whisper down the lane
back lane
bicycle lane
bike lane
breakdown lane
bus lane
bye-lane
bylane
carpool lane
chicken lane
Chorlton Lane
climbing lane
collector lane
core lane
country lane
crawler lane
cruising lane
cycle lane
devil's lane
diamond lane
express lane
fast lane
Field-lane duck
filter lane
fire lane
flashing lane
Four Lane Ends
free-throw lane
granny lane
green lane
Green Lane
guilt lane
high-occupancy vehicle lane
HOV lane
inlane
inside lane
in the fast lane
laned
Lane End
Lane Ends
lane filtering
laneful
laneless
laner
lane snapper
lane violation
laneway
left lane camper
left lane hog
left lane hogger
left lane hugger
Lexus lane
ln
ln.
local lane
lover's lane
lovers' lane
memory lane
merge lane
multilane
New Lane
on one's lee-lane
outlane
overtaking lane
Park Lane
passing lane
pedestrian lane
pick a lane
pit lane
Rayners Lane
red lane
relane
reserved bus lane
right lane camper
right lane hog
right lane hogger
right lane hugger
running lane
Sandy Lane
sea-lane
sea lane
shared lane marking
shipping lane
skate one's lane
slip lane
slow lane
stay in one's lane
Street Lane
suicide lane
sunken lane
swim lane
swimlane
thoroughlane
throughlane
transit lane
victory lane
whisper down the lane
White Hart Lane
Zil lane
zipper lane