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Lane

leɪn

Lane definitions
noun
lane lanes
  1. a narrow road, especially in a rural area

    "she drove along the winding lane"

    • an urban street

      "Park Lane"

  2. a division of a road marked off with painted lines and intended to separate single lines of traffic according to speed or direction

    "the car moved into the outside lane"

    • each of a number of parallel strips of track or water for runners, rowers, or swimmers in a race

      "she went into the final in lane three"

    • a route prescribed for or regularly followed by ships or aircraft

      "the shipping lanes of the South Atlantic"

    • (in tenpin bowling) a long, narrow strip of floor down which the ball is bowled

      "a maximum of six people can play on a lane at any one time"

    • each of a number of notional parallel strips in the gel of an electrophoresis plate, occupied by a single sample

      "DNA from various sources is placed in separate lanes on an electrophoretic gel"

    • a dark streak or band which shows up against a bright background, especially in a spiral galaxy

      "the innermost dust lane is dense enough to absorb some infrared"