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# lan

«lan» in Mova's school dictionary: **LAN stands for local area network: computers connected…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

abbreviation (LAN); fragment

### meaning for a pupil

1) LAN stands for local area network: computers connected together in one building, like a school or house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#m1)

2) «Lan» is a name or part of a name (a name), and a fragment of longer words like «land» or «plan». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#m2)

3) (Mandarin, pinyin) «lán» means blue (蓝). It sounds like «lahn» and is not an English word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In computing, a LAN connects computers in a school so they share printers and files; a «LAN party» is when friends link computers to play games. In Mandarin lessons, «lán sè» means the colour blue.

### examples

- Our school computers are on a LAN. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#x1)
- The LAN cable plugs into the back of the computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#x2)
- They had a LAN party to play games together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#x3)
- In Mandarin, «lán» means blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#x4)
- «Lan» is the start of «lane» and «land». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#x5)
- The internet is bigger than a LAN — it is a network of networks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/#x6)

### note

Usually written in capitals: LAN. Not a normal English word on its own.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.