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corridor
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k????d??(?)/, /?k????d?(?)/
- (General American) enPR: kôr??dôr', IPA(key): /?k????d??/
Noun
corridor (plural corridors)
- A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
- A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
- (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
- Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
Derived terms
- the corridors of power
- non-corridor, noncorridor
- Northeast Corridor
- Polish Corridor
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian corridore.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.?i.d??/
Noun
corridor m (plural corridors)
- passage, corridor
Further reading
- “corridor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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lane
English
Etymology
From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lane, lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lan? (“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”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /le?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
- Homophone: lain
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.
- (horse racing) The home stretch.
Synonyms
- (thoroughfare): carriageway, direction, roadway, side
- (narrow passageway): See Thesaurus:alley
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- lane in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lane in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- lane at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Alne, ELAN, Lean, Lena, Nale, Neal, elan, enal, lean, nale, neal, élan
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin l?na.
Noun
lane f
- wool
Related terms
- lanarûl
- lanôs
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French l’année (“the year”).
Noun
lane
- year
Italian
Noun
lane f
- plural of lana
Anagrams
- lena
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish lán, from Proto-Celtic *?l?nos (compare Welsh llawn), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [l?dn]
Adjective
lane
- full
Middle English
Alternative forms
- lone
Etymology
From Old English lanu, from Proto-West Germanic *lanu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?n(?)/
Noun
lane (plural lanes)
- a narrow way
Descendants
- English: lane
- Scots: lone
- Yola: laane
References
- “l?ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- lana (a-infinitive)
Etymology
From the noun lan (“LAN (party)”) +? -e.
Verb
lane (present tense lanar, past tense lana, past participle lana, passive infinitive lanast, present participle lanande, imperative lan)
- to attend or host a LAN party
References
Anagrams
- alen, alne, lena, Lena, la-en
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la.n?/
Participle
lane
- inflection of lany:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Scots
Etymology
See lone.
Adjective
lane (not comparable)
- alone
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *oln?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lâne/
- Hyphenation: la?ne
Noun
l?ne n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- fawn
- an affectionate term, dear child
Declension
Etymology 2
Same as l?ni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??ne/
- Hyphenation: la?ne
Adverb
láne (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- last year
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