lane.
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
Meaning & usage
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
Penny Lane
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.
A narrow road, as in the country.
A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
Drivers should overtake in the outside lane
We were held up by a truck in the middle lane of the freeway.
A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
a swimming lane
Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
the checkout lanes in a supermarket
A course designated for ships or aircraft.
shipping lane
An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
A single serial data path in the PCI Express standard.
In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
The home stretch.
And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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