lane vs turnpike

lane

noun
  • A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. 

  • A narrow road, as in the country. 

  • Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture. 

  • A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart. 

  • A course designated for ships or aircrafts. 

  • An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled. 

  • In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters. 

  • A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles. 

  • An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards. 

  • Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages. 

  • A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. 

  • The home stretch. 

turnpike

noun
  • A toll road, especially a toll expressway. 

  • A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function. 

  • A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid, 

  • A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. 

  • A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise. 

  • A winding stairway. 

verb
  • To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road. 

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