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Meaning lane meaning

What does lane mean?
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lane

A lane is one part of the road that cars traveling in one direction stay in, usually divided by white or yellow paint from other lanes. Widening traffic lanes from 9.5 to 10 or 11 feet reduces car crashes. In some cities, they have separate bike lanes with their own traffic lights. It's very annoying when slow drivers stay in the fast lane. Drivers are supposed to travel on the highway's three lanes and use the shoulders only for emergencies. Concrete barriers blocked one lane of the street to keep traffic from getting too close to the building. She sped across three lanes of traffic on I-4 almost hitting two other cars. A lane is a small country road, also used in the name of many small roads. We walked slowly along quiet back roads and narrow, tree-lined lanes. Sur la Table is located at 77 Maiden Lane, San Francisco.

lane

a narrow way or road a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic

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Examples lane examples

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Simple sentences

A bulldozer was used to level the lane.
In Japan almost all roads are single lane.
The rightmost lane is now under construction.

Movie subtitles

But what about Nathan Lane?!
On her immigration card, she wrote 135 Dunvilles Lane.
Marigold Lane.
I can reveal what I have known from the beginning, that Calvin Roberts and Sarah Lane will succeed me together as co-leaders of the movement and guardians of The Light.
Mr. Lane, you're having an adverse reaction to the alcohol you've ingested.
Mr. Lane?
I'll go tonight, when Inspector Lane's on duty.
We'll stop in a lane near the inn.
Is Inspector Lane at the station?
At Goose Lane, me arches crack, and I come a cropper.
Goose Lane.
But the murder in Goose Lane was two nights ago.
Go down the Mill Lane, that will take you to the High Road.
Well, there's a Boulevard three mile off. And there's a quiet little lane where nobody goes much.
Eddie, you had too much to drink. Mr. Lane, you're having an adverse reaction to the alcohol you've ingested.
Well surely you can remember exactly which lane?
Oh, Inspector Lane.
Edward, drive by Inspector Lane's office.
Inspector Lane?
Inspector Lane believes the only way to prevent crime is to catch the crook and put him away behind bars.
Inspector Lane.
The museum at Walston Lane does well enough.
Gangway. Keep this lane open.
Come on, keep this lane open.
They say the lane is haunted.
I live at 13 Lovers' Lane.
Number 13, Lovers' Lane.
I know a psychic on Lovers' Lane. who can unlock this book's secret.
He's passing the end of the lane.
Elizabeth Lane.
That Elizabeth Lane feature, the housewife one runs in Home and Garden?
Yes, Mrs. Lane's feature is.

News and current affairs

If the traffic then starts moving in another lane, everyone will greet the change with elation.
But if the other lane keeps moving and we do not, our elation is eventually replaced by annoyance and anger.
A groundbreaking paper by economists Eric Bickel and Lee Lane is one of the first - and certainly the most comprehensive - study of the costs and benefits of climate engineering.
No one can say how deep the changes will go, nor how fast they will shift Europe into the fast lane.
First and foremost, deregulation of labor markets and social benefits is going to go into reverse or, at least, into the slow lane.
Despite this appalling record, the US occupation authorities in Iraq appointed a former director of the Texas prison system, Lane McCotter, to help set up operations at Abu Ghraib in May 2003.
Egypt may become stuck in democratization's slow lane, but there will be no U-turn.
If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way through any village in its path.
In India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.
An eight-lane highway must carry traffic to generate tolls.
Because China must import vast quantities of oil through the Malacca Strait, that sea lane has become a central element in the country's security strategy.
The US State Department and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs were engaged in a war of words over mounting territorial and sea-lane disputes in the East and South China Seas.
Another is to enforce some simple rules: don't drive in the fast lane if going slow, stop at red lights, use a signal before a turn, and so on.
The project includes nine large industrial zones, high-speed freight lines, three ports, six airports, a six-lane expressway, and a 4,000-megawatt power plant.
Yamassoukro boasts grand eight-lane highways lined with over 10,000 lights and a full-scale replica of St Peter's in Rome.
Little wonder: stretching from Singapore to Taiwan, the South China Sea is the world's second-busiest sea-lane, with one-third of global shipping transiting through it.
Bickel and Lane offer compelling evidence that a tiny investment in climate engineering might be able to reduce as much of global warming's effects as trillions of dollars spent on carbon emission reductions.
Rising dependence on energy imports has already been used to rationalize an increased emphasis on maritime power, raising new concerns about sea-lane safety and vulnerability to supply disruptions.

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