Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
passageway:
division of roadway:
Русский
By meaning 4
passageway:
division of roadway:
division of racetrack:
course for ships or aircraft:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
passageway:
a narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees:
division of roadway:
division of racetrack:
any of a number of parallel tracks or passages:
course for ships or aircraft:

Examples

134 sentences

  1. Stay in your lane.

    Залишайся у своїй смузі. — deniko

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  2. I was living life in the fast lane.

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  3. Due to road construction, only one lane is open.

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Meaning

14 senses

  1. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.

    There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.

    Gasse, Pfädchen

    переу́локpereúlok, алле́яalléja, але́йкаaléjka

    прову́локprovúlok, але́яaléja

  2. A narrow road, as in the country.

    a narrow way or road

  3. 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.

    Spur, Streifen

    полоса́polosá

    сму́га ру́хуsmúha rúxu, сму́гаsmúha

More meanings 11

  1. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.

    There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.

    Bahn

    доро́жкаdoróžka

  2. A course designated for ships or aircraft.

    shipping lane

    Spur, Route

    тра́ссаtrássa

  3. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.

    the checkout lanes in a supermarket

    Durchgang

  4. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

    Penny Lane

  5. A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.

    a swimming lane

  6. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.

    We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.

  7. The home stretch.

    And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.

  8. An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.

  9. Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.

Origin

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Prot

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).

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Forms

plural: lanes
Singularlane
Plurallanes

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees:alley
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare:directionA2sideA1carriagewayroadway

Word family

64 related words
Derivedacceleration laneair laneback lanebicycle lanebreakdown lanebus lanebylanecarpool lanechicken laneclimbing lanecollector lanecore lanecountry lanecrawler lanecruising lanecycle lanedevil's lanediamond laneexpress lanefast lanefilter lanefire laneflashing lanefree-throw lane

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
landscapeA2landslideB2langlanguageA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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