lane

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Regno Unito//leɪn//

A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

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A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
Penny Lane
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A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
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.
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A narrow road, as in the country.
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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.
the exit lane
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A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
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A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
a swimming lane
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Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
the checkout lanes in a supermarket
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A course designated for ships or aircraft.
shipping lane
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An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
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An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
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Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
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In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
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The home stretch.
And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.

Etimologia

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”).

Forme

plurale: lanes

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lane · A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

Lane · A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who…lanes · bowling alley lang · long

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