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Lane vs Lone - What's the difference?

lane | lone |

As a verb lane

is borrow.

As a proper noun lone is

.

lane

English

(wikipedia lane)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees
  • A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
  • A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
  • A course designated for ships or aircraft
  • (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
  • Derived terms

    * laneway * memory lane * shipping lane * swimlane

    See also

    * alley * alleyway * carriageway * direction * gennel, ginnel, guinnel, gunnel, jennel * gitty, jitty * side * passage * roadway * snicket * wynd

    Anagrams

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    lone

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Solitary; having no companion.
  • :
  • *(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
  • *:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
  • Sole; being the only one of a type.
  • Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
  • :
  • *(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
  • *:By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
  • (lb) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
  • (lb) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
  • *Collection of Records (1642)
  • *:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
  • Synonyms

    * only

    Derived terms

    * lone gunman * lone wolf

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