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- 1 A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
"Yet ere to to-morrow's ſun ſhall ſhew his head, / The dewy paths of meadows we will tread, / For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head."
- 2 Pathology. abbreviation, uncountable
- 3 a course of conduct wordnet
- 4 A course taken.
"the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm"
- 5 a way especially designed for a particular use wordnet
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- 6 A metaphorical course or route; progress.
"But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low; My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover’d lands."
- 7 an established line of travel or access wordnet
- 8 A method or direction of proceeding.
"All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth."
- 9 a line or route along which something travels or moves wordnet
- 10 A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- 11 A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
"Use the network path \\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need."
- 12 A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- 13 A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
- 14 A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
""Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force."
- 1 To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone). transitive
"His ghoſtly counſells onely doe aduiſe, / The meanes hovv Langlies progenie may riſe, / Pathing young Henries vnaduiſed vvaies, / A Duke of Yorke from Cambridge houſe to raiſe, […]"
- 2 To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder). intransitive
"Next, you need to path to the location of the executable and run it from there."
- 3 To pathfind. intransitive
Etymology
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), however this is disputed. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad, Pad (“path”), West Frisian paad (“path”), Dutch pad (“path”), German Pfad (“path”), German Low German Padd (“path”), Luxembourgish Pad (“path”). Indo-Iranian cognates could be Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊, “way”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎰 (p-θ /paθi/)), Sanskrit पन्था (panthā, “path”). See also English find. Doublet of panth.
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), however this is disputed. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad, Pad (“path”), West Frisian paad (“path”), Dutch pad (“path”), German Pfad (“path”), German Low German Padd (“path”), Luxembourgish Pad (“path”). Indo-Iranian cognates could be Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊, “way”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎰 (p-θ /paθi/)), Sanskrit पन्था (panthā, “path”). See also English find. Doublet of panth.
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