Meaning of path | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pathology.
   abbreviation, uncountable
2. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
3. way, route
4. road
5. A course taken.
6. a combining form occurring in personal nouns corresponding to abstract nouns ending in -pathy, with the general sense “one practicing such a treatment” (osteopath) or “one suffering from such an ailment” (psychopath).
   osteopath
7. A metaphorical course or route; progress.
8. A course affording passage from one place to another:avenue, boulevard, drive, expressway, freeway, highway, road, roadway, route, street, superhighway, thoroughfare, thruway, turnpike, way.
9. first-person singular present indicative of caminar
10. A method or direction of proceeding.
11. a path. paadjie طَريق، مَسار път caminho stezka der Pfad sti μονοπάτιcamino, sendero rada راه polku sentierשביל, מסלול मार्ग, पगडण्डी staza, put (gyalog)ösvény jalan setapak gangstígur, slóð sentiero 通路 길 takas taka, celiņš lorong pad, wegsti, vei, gang, baneścieżka لار caminho cărare тропа, путь chodník, cestička steza staza stig, gångstig ทางเดิน patika, yaya yolu 路，徑 стежка, доріжка راستہ، پگڈنڈي đường mòn; đường nhỏ 路，径
12. A trodden track or way.
13. A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
14. A road, way, or track made for a particular purpose: a bicycle path.
15. 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.
16. The route or course along which something travels or moves: the path of a hurricane.
17. 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).
18. A course of action or conduct: the path of righteousness.
19. A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
20. Computers a. A sequence of commands or a link between points that is needed to reach a particular goal.
    Computers
21. A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
22. a road or way, esp a narrow trodden track
23. a surfaced walk, as through a garden

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Examples

“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.”

“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.”

“the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm”

“Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.”

“⁠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.”

“As I explored the possibility of a library science path, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again […]”

“All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.”

“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

“Use the network path \\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need.”

“"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.”

“... while the planned hourly fast 'Connect' service from Middlesbrough to Newcastle has been postponed indefinitely due to problems in finding paths for it on the East Coast main line.”

“Echoing McNaughton's comments in 2009, it adds: "The WCML has exhausted its available train paths and no extra services could be run without further significant investment to enhance current infrastructure or build a new line.”

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