different between lan vs beaconing

Basque

Noun

lan inan

1. work, task
2. labour
3. annoyance, trouble

Declension

Derived terms

• lan egin 'work' (v.)
• lantegi 'workplace'

Haitian Creole

Article

lan

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

Use this word only after a word that ends with a nasal vowel and an oral (non-nasal) consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• nan
• yo
• yon

Javanese

Conjunction

lan

1. and

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *lino-; cognate with Upper Sorbian len, Polish len, Czech len, Russian ??? (ljon), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (l?n?n?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan/

Noun

lan m (diminutive lank)

1. flax (“Linum usitatissimum”)

Declension

Further reading

• lan in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• lan in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Mandarin

Romanization

lan

1. Nonstandard spelling of lán.
2. Nonstandard spelling of l?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of làn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle Irish

Adjective

lan

1. Alternative spelling of lán

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English LAN, acronym of local area network.

Noun

lan n (definite singular lanet, indefinite plural lan, definite plural lana)

1. (networking) a LAN
2. (computing) a LAN party

Derived terms

• lana, lane (verb)

References

• Cf. “lan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• nal

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic form; compare Ukrainian ??? (lan).

Noun

lan n (plural lanuri)

1. field (arable land)

Declension

Synonyms

• ogor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?n?.

Noun

l?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. flax

Declension

Derived terms

• lànen

Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese lã, from Old Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin l?na (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?w??h?neh? (“wool”).

Noun

lan

1. wool

Turkish

Interjection

lan

1. Alternative form of ulan

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [la?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [la????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [la????]

Etymology 1

Compare tràn (“to overflow”).

Verb

lan

1. to spread; to run

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) lan

1. orchid

Wab

Noun

lan

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan/

Etymology 1

The sense of "up, upwards" comes from an abbreviation of the phrase i'r lan "to the shore, ashore; upwards".

Preposition

lan

1. (South Wales) up

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

Adverb

lan

1. (South Wales) up, upwards

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of glan (“shore, bank”).

Derived terms

• lanlwytho (“to upload”)

Mutation

Etymology 2

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of llan (“church”).

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse *l??n, from Proto-Germanic *laihwn?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo??/, /l???/, /lo?n/

Noun

lan

1. A loan.
2. A confused, lost person.

Related terms

• laan
• loon

Etymology 2

Noun

lan

1. Alternative spelling of land

Yámana

Noun

lan

1. tongue

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *?la?n? (“nephew; niece; grandchild”). Cognate with Thai ???? (l?an), Northern Thai ?????, Khün ?????, Lao ???? (l?n), Lü ??? (l?aan), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (l?an), Tai Nüa ???? (láan), Ahom ???????????? (lan), Saek ?????.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /la?n??/
• Tone numbers: lan¹
• Hyphenation: lan

Noun

lan (classifier boux, Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ???? or ????, old orthography lan)

1. grandchild; grandson

Derived terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?k?n??/

Verb

beaconing

1. present participle of beacon (The emitting of signals from a beacon).

Noun

beaconing (plural beaconings)

1. gerund of beacon
   1. (computing, telecommunications) A continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN, or small packets on a wireless LAN (WLAN).
   2. (computing, telecommunications) In a token ring network, the process of isolating a fault domain with signals, so that recovery actions can take place.

See also

• LAN
• token ring

References

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Anagrams

• bacogenin