What's the difference between alleyway and lane?

Alleyway


Definition:

  • (n.) An alley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years after the revolution began I am touring the alleyways of Saraqeb with a group of young men counting their dead.
  • (2) A rapist is not necessarily a violent man with a knife down a dark alleyway.
  • (3) She took me through the recently built but struggling “theatre district” with its dismal alleyways and closed nightclub.
  • (4) The traditional courtyard homes, or siheyuan, that line the city’s hutong alleyways were arranged according to the “duties of obligation” between family members.
  • (5) The magnificent gigantic sprawl of the Edinburgh festival fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world, is once again set to swamp every spare stage, school hall, pub back room and alleyway in the Scottish capital, this year featuring 49,497 performances of 3,193 shows in 299 venues.
  • (6) lion67 Mix it in Melbourne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bar Americano Hidden in an alleyway off an alleyway in Melbourne’s CBD, the wonderful staff at Bar Americano mixed me the best drink I’ve ever had in my life, and then swiftly followed it with an even better one.
  • (7) In a second experiment, sham-operated and decorticate rats were first shaped to pull the ball clear from the alleyway, and then required to adopt a push-type clearance response when movement of the ball towards the start box was prevented.
  • (8) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
  • (9) Pih said the artist had reinstalled the work especially for Tate, adding a 2013 touch: a woman's shoe he found down a Liverpool alleyway – "a residue of a night out".
  • (10) Rise in the streets, in the schools, on the buses, in your homes, in the dark alleyways, in the offices and factories and fishing boats and fields.
  • (11) They live in abandoned, rubble-strewn houses and slip through alleyways to avoid sniper bullets.
  • (12) The same four alleyways in New York are used over and over again, perpetuating the same tired cliche And yet today, film-makers instead simply treat it as a backlot set, a blank slate to create whatever version of amusement park best fits a script.
  • (13) In a quiet alleyway in Tripoli's old city, a 33-year-old man said he had a rebel flag hidden at home, waiting for the day when Gaddafi goes.
  • (14) The effect of visual distracting stimuli upon the straight alleyway performance of dorsal hippocampectomized Wistar rats was investigated.
  • (15) Roughly speaking.” The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had In Edinburgh in the late 90s I went to a barber’s I had always gone to, in an alleyway off Cockburn Street, run by an old Italian man, but he wasn’t there, and in his place were two threatening, scowling young men.
  • (16) "If you're chasing critters up and down alleyways, you're missing the point," he said.
  • (17) It also unveiled the Street View Trekker , a bulky backpack with several 15-megapixel cameras protruding on a stalk, so that operatives can capture "offroad" imagery from hiking trails, narrow alleyways or the forest floor.
  • (18) Responses to male conspecific odors (soiled bedding) presented in an alleyway were compared among five groups of adult male albino house mice with different rearing histories.
  • (19) I think they worked out we weren't going to follow them off down the alleyways, and for me that was a complete no-no, as the one thing I wanted to avoid was another Keith Blakelock [the officer killed in the Tottenham riot of 1985].
  • (20) Behind their heads, the small window opened on to the narrow, dark alleyway that for 26 months has been one of the Australian's only views.

Lane


Definition:

  • (a.) Alone.
  • (n.) A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
  • (2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (3) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.
  • (4) Cluster analysis results could not be considered valid, since replicate lanes in different gels were not grouped together.
  • (5) The deal will be effective from 28 February, meaning Defoe has the opportunity to add to his 142 goals for the White Hart Lane club.
  • (6) "I'm led to believe that Notts County used to play their home games at Trent Bridge, The Oval hosted an FA Cup final and Bramall Lane used to be a cricket ground, but are there any other cricket grounds that have hosted either league or international football matches?"
  • (7) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
  • (8) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
  • (9) Lanes and bands can be added or removed, based upon users' subjective preferences.
  • (10) We replicated DNA fingerprints of snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) and hypervariable restriction fragments of red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) to estimate the between-blot and between-lane components of variance in molecular weights of restriction fragments.
  • (11) At peak times 1,300 vehicles an hour will use the lanes, with non-Olympic motorists fined £130 if they stray into them.
  • (12) Riga, accompanied by Fraeye, was at Charlton's Sparrows Lane training ground on Tuesday and watched on as Powell's existing coaching staff oversaw the first-team squad.
  • (13) If the orienting voltage was applied parallel to the direction of electrophoresis, both linear and supercoiled DNA molecules migrated in straight lanes.
  • (14) The technology is also there for green-laning, says Everett – intelligent traffic lights that recognise where traffic is coming from, allowing cars to flow more freely and cutting down on unnecessary braking and restarting, which wastes energy.
  • (15) On the other hand, the relatively smooth-surfaced 'lanes' between groups of respiratory islets have a microridged surface similar to that of the primary gill lamellae.
  • (16) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
  • (17) However, it is early days for Pochettino’s side and Tottenham’s credentials will be fully tested by Liverpool, whose 5-0 victory at White Hart Lane last season led to André Villas-Boas losing his job.
  • (18) Monkey chants rang out at White Hart Lane this month as visiting Lazio "Ultras" from Italy abused three Spurs players.
  • (19) Obama came out firmly against “fast” and “slow” lanes arguing against cable firm’s charging higher fees for faster service.
  • (20) The lanes were discussed at the first of a series of daily meetings, chaired on Monday by David Cameron , which assessed security and transport arrangements for the Olympics.