three-lane
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- adjective
- /θriː leɪn/
:
de tres carriles
- The westbound 10 Freeway will have up to three lanes closed from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday from Punete Avenue to the 605 Freeway.
- three-lane highway
- three lanes of traffic
- three lanes in each direction
Examples
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On my commute (30 miles, freeway), especially on the drive home, I see a lot of drivers almost-not-quite crossing lane markers, or going from 70 to 50 for no reason, or suddenly crossing three lanes because OOPS, there's the exit!
Blog text (7) -
For our generation's grid to work as it should, we would need three lanes in good condition, perhaps four—and a pool of drivers who were all trained, licensed, registered, and insured.
Blog text (7) -
The eastbound 10 Freeway will have up to three lanes.
Blog text (2) -
On a three-lane road with a center left-turn lane, she said the pedestrian must be out of the driver's lane and reach the other side of the center lane before the driver can proceed.
Blog text (15) -
The freeway had now become a three-lane highway, and after a while, Jack turned off it onto a gravel road running at an angle into the woods.
Fiction book (1990) -
Alarmed by its sudden appearance, she cut across three lanes of traffic, enraging a truck that honked and startled her.
Fiction book (2001) -
from Durfee Avenue to Baldwin Park Boulevard; up to three lanes from the 605 Freeway to
Blog text (2) -
You inch along for twenty minutes or so and finally discover that the slowdown has been caused because an object—not so big that one person could not readily remove it—fell from a truck and was partially blocking one lane of a three-lane highway.
Academic text (1994) -
The new highway was designed with a three-lane structure to improve traffic flow.
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During rush hour, the three-lane road becomes heavily congested with vehicles.
Synonyms
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4.0
A road with more than one lane for traffic moving in the same or opposite directions
Antonyms
How Many Lanes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Three-lane is a simple combination of three and lane, where three is the number and lane means a 'narrow part of a road'. So a three-lane road has three strips for cars, often with a middle lane for passing or turning.