"shipping lane" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shipping lanes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shipping lane (plural shipping lanes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1931 June 8, “Science: No Icebergs”, in Time",
          "text": "Something has happened to North Atlantic icebergs this season. Up to last week only two small \"growlers\" had floated into the shipping lanes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 July 30, Bernard E. Trainor, “Showdown in Gulf”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-02-18",
          "text": "Ships line up on the buoys to insure they do not stray from the shipping lane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 December 17, David Clarke, “Chinese ship rescued from pirates in Gulf of Aden”, in Reuters, retrieved 2013-02-18",
          "text": "A multilateral force rescued a Chinese ship from Somali pirates on Wednesday, in a sign foreign navies patrolling the shipping lane linking Europe to Asia are adopting tougher new tactics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A route across an ocean, sea, or other body of water which is regularly used by commercial maritime vessels."
      ],
      "id": "en-shipping_lane-en-noun-CzfQ~N6X",
      "links": [
        [
          "route",
          "route"
        ],
        [
          "commercial",
          "commercial"
        ],
        [
          "maritime",
          "maritime"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shipping lane"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shipping lanes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shipping lane (plural shipping lanes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1931 June 8, “Science: No Icebergs”, in Time",
          "text": "Something has happened to North Atlantic icebergs this season. Up to last week only two small \"growlers\" had floated into the shipping lanes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 July 30, Bernard E. Trainor, “Showdown in Gulf”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-02-18",
          "text": "Ships line up on the buoys to insure they do not stray from the shipping lane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 December 17, David Clarke, “Chinese ship rescued from pirates in Gulf of Aden”, in Reuters, retrieved 2013-02-18",
          "text": "A multilateral force rescued a Chinese ship from Somali pirates on Wednesday, in a sign foreign navies patrolling the shipping lane linking Europe to Asia are adopting tougher new tactics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A route across an ocean, sea, or other body of water which is regularly used by commercial maritime vessels."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "route",
          "route"
        ],
        [
          "commercial",
          "commercial"
        ],
        [
          "maritime",
          "maritime"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shipping lane"
}