different between pavement vs lane

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pavement, Middle French pavement, and their source, Latin pav?mentum (“paved surface or floor”), from pavire (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”).

Morphologically pave +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?vm?nt/

Noun

pavement (usually uncountable, plural pavements)

1. (now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground. [from 13th c.]
2. (now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway. [from 13th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 53:

     [H]e attempted to recover his importance, by haranguing upon the Roman highways, when Mr. Jolter desired the company to take notice of the fine pavement upon which they travelled from Paris into Flanders […] .

   • 1991, Airpower Journal 1911, page 45:

     The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.

3. (now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
4. A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road. [from 18th c.]
5. (architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• (footpath): sidewalk (US), footpath, footway, platform
• (surface of road): roadway (US), road surface (US); paving

Derived terms

• hit the pavement
• pavement cafe
• pavement pizza
• pound the pavement

Translations

See also

• footpath
• sidewalk
• pavement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French pavement, from the verb paver +? -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pav.m??/

Noun

pavement m (plural pavements)

1. paving
2. tiled floor

Further reading

• “pavement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

paver +? -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Noun

pavement m (oblique plural pavemenz or pavementz, nominative singular pavemenz or pavementz, nominative plural pavement)

1. a paved room

Descendants

• ? English: pavement
  • ? Welsh: palmant, paement
• French: pavement

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