different between lane vs median

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French median, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos (“middle”). Doublet of mean and mizzen. Cognate with Old English midde, middel (“middle”). More at middle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?d??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mi?di.?n/

Noun

median (plural medians)

1. (anatomy, now rare) A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm. [from 15th c.]
2. (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
3. (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values. [from 19th c.]
4. (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic; the median strip. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• (median strip): central reservation

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)

Related terms

• mean
• mediate
• mediation
• mediator
• medium
• mediocre
• mediocrity

Translations

Adjective

median (not comparable)

1. Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something). [from 16th c.]
2. (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb. [from 16th c.]
3. (statistics) Having the median as its value. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• median line
• median strip

Translations

See also

• average
• mean
• mode

Anagrams

• Damien, Eidman, Maiden, Manide, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, maiden, mained, medina, meidan

Esperanto

Adjective

median

1. accusative singular of media

Finnish

Noun

median

1. Genitive singular form of media.

Anagrams

• maiden

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch mediaan, from Latin medianus (“of or pertaining to the middle”, adjective), from medius (“middle”) (see medium), from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos (“middle”). Doublet of madya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [me?dian]
• Hyphenation: mé?di?an

Noun

median or médian

1. median,
   1. (statistics) the number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half.
   2. (geometry) a line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
   3. the median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
2. medium, anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.

   Synonym: sedang

3. (printing, dated) pica: 12-point type
4. (printing, dated) mediaan, a former Nederland paper size, 470 mm × 560 mm.

Related terms

Further reading

• “median” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

From French médian, from Latin medianus.

Adjective

median m or n (feminine singular median?, masculine plural medieni, feminine and neuter plural mediene)

1. median

Declension

Spanish

Verb

median

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of mediar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of mediar.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medianus; cf. English median.

Noun

median c

1. median value

Declension

Related terms

• medianvärde