lane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: lanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
pos: noun
examples: Penny Lane
gloss: A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
pos: noun
examples: There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away / From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra.
gloss: A narrow road, as in the country.
pos: noun
gloss: A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
pos: noun
examples: Drivers should overtake in the outside lane
We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway.
the exit lane
gloss: A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
pos: noun
examples: There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
gloss: A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
pos: noun
examples: a swimming lane
gloss: Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
pos: noun
examples: the checkout lanes in a supermarket
gloss: A course designated for ships or aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: shipping lane
gloss: An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
pos: noun
examples: We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
gloss: An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
pos: noun
gloss: In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
pos: noun
gloss: The home stretch.
pos: noun
examples: And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.
Derived words: 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
lovers' lane
lover's 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
swimlane
swim lane
thoroughlane
throughlane
transit lane
victory lane
whisper down the lane
White Hart Lane
Wood Lane
Zil lane
zipper lane
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