different between lane vs cloister

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)

1. (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.

2. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.

3. A narrow road, as in the country.
4. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.

5. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.

6. A course designated for ships or aircrafts.

7. (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.

8. (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
9. (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
10. (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
11. (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

1. wool

Related terms

• lanarûl
• lanôs

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French l’année (“the year”).

Noun

lane

1. year

Italian

Noun

lane f

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. to attend or host a LAN party

References

Anagrams

• alen, alne, lena, Lena, la-en

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.n?/

Participle

lane

1. inflection of lany:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Scots

Etymology

See lone.

Adjective

lane (not comparable)

1. alone

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *oln?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lâne/
• Hyphenation: la?ne

Noun

l?ne n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fawn
2. an affectionate term, dear child

Declension

Etymology 2

Same as l?ni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??ne/
• Hyphenation: la?ne

Adverb

láne (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. last year

English

Alternative forms

• cloistre (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via Old English clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (“to close”). Doublet of claustrum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??st?/
• (US) enPR: kloi?st?r, IPA^(key): /?kl??st?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?)

Noun

cloister (plural cloisters)

1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
   1. such an arcade in a monastery;
   2. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
2. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3. (figuratively) The monastic life.

Derived terms

• cloisterer
• cloisterless
• cloisterlike
• cloister vault
• cloistral
• cloistress
• encloister

Related terms

• claustrum
• claustral
• claustrophobia

Translations

Verb

cloister (third-person singular simple present cloisters, present participle cloistering, simple past and past participle cloistered)

1. (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
2. (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
3. (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
4. (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

   The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.

5. (transitive) To protect or isolate.

Synonyms

• (become a Catholic religious) enter religion

Derived terms

• cloistered
• uncloister

Related terms

• claustration

Translations

See also

• abbey
• hermitage
• monastery
• nunnery

Anagrams

• citolers, cloistre, coistrel, cortiles, costlier, creolist, sterolic

Middle English

Noun

cloister

1. Alternative form of cloistre