lane

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
• A course designated for ships or aircrafts.
• An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
• 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.
• In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
• The home stretch.

Related

Similar words

• carriageway, direction, roadway, side

Origin

• From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu, from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō ("lane, passageway"). Cognate with Scots lone ("cattle-track, by-road"), West Frisian leane, loane, Dutch laan ("alley, avenue"), German Low German Lane, Laan, Swedish lån ("covered walkway encircling a house"), Icelandic lön ("a row of houses").