lane

名词 n.
/leɪn/    /leɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
    — Penny Lane
  2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
    — There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.
  3. A narrow road, as in the country.
  4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
    — Drivers should overtake in the outside lane
  5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
    — There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.
  6. A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart.
    — a swimming lane
  7. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.
    — the checkout lanes in a supermarket
  8. A course designated for ships or aircraft.
    — shipping lane
  9. An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
    — We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.
  10. An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
  11. Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
  12. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
  13. The home stretch.
    — And it's Uncle Mo in front by two as they come to the top of the lane.

词形变化

lanes plural

词源

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”).
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