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LANE
lane
(noun) a narrow way or road
lane
(noun) a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Lane
A topographic surname for someone who lived in a lane.
A patronymic surname anglicised from various Irish surnames.
A male given name from surnames.
A female given name.
An unincorporated community in Idaho.
A city in Kansas.
An unincorporated community in Oklahoma.
A town in South Carolina.
A town in South Dakota.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lane is the 216th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 134,227 individuals. Lane is most common among White (77.14%) and Black (16.88%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Alne, ELAN, Lean, Lena, Nale, Neal, elan, enal, lean, nale, neal, élan
Etymology
Noun
lane (plural lanes)
(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.
Synonyms
• (thoroughfare): carriageway, direction, roadway, side
• (narrow passageway): See Thesaurus:alley
Anagrams
• Alne, ELAN, Lean, Lena, Nale, Neal, elan, enal, lean, nale, neal, élan
Source: Wiktionary
Lane, a. Etym: [See Lone.]
Definition: Alone [Scot.] His lane, by himself; himself alone.
Lane, n. Etym: [OE. lane, lone, AS. lone, lone; akin to D. laan, OFries. lana, lona.]
Definition: A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, ras, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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