lane
English
/leɪn/
noun
Definitions
- (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
- A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
- A narrow road, as in the country.
- A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
- A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
- A course designated for ships or aircrafts.
- (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
- (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
- (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
- (horse racing) The homestretch.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lane inherited from Old English lane inherited from *lanu inherited from Proto-Germanic *lanō (lane, passageway).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*lanō
Gloss
lane, passageway
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bylane English
- country English
- country lane English
- in English
- inlane English
- laned English
- laneful English
- laneless English
- laner English
- laneway English
- multilane English
- out English
- outlane English
- relane English
- thoroughlane English
- through English
- throughlane English
- way English
- Lahnung German
- laan Dutch, Flemish
- oprijlaan Dutch, Flemish
- *lanō Proto-Germanic
- betydelselån Swedish
- bostadslån Swedish
- lån Swedish
- utlån Swedish
- lane Old English
- lanu Old English
- lane Middle English
- lána Irish
- laen Middle Dutch
- *lanu gmw-pro
- *lana Old Dutch
- lāne Middle Low German
- lana Old Saxon
- lan Old Swedish