Path

Definition: Path

Path

Noun

1. A course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path".

2. A way especially designed for a particular use.

3. An established line of travel or access.

4. A line or route along which something travels or moves: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "path" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Dream Interpretation

Electrical Engineering

Geography

Math

Physics

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PATH

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Path

Conduct

Course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method; path.

Direction

Line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment, allignment; air line, beeline; straight shoot.

Egress

Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe.

Escape

Loophole; (opening); path; refuse; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape.

Ingress

Inlet; way in; mouth, door; (opening); barway; path; (way); conduit; immigrant.

Opening

Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.

Passage

Noun: passage, transmission; permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration; endosmose exosmose; endosmosis; intercurrence; ingress; egress; path; conduit; opening; journey; voyage.

Crosswords: Path

Italian (path).

There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with the golden hair, and all the spirit of preternatural flesh detached, unchangeable, empty (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

the street where she broke up with me. And there's the path we took (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Fear is the path to the dark side (Episode I: The Phantom Menace; writing credit: George Lucas.)

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

She'll lead you down a path (SECRET GARDEN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

I'm an outcast on the path of rebound (Warheart; performing artist: Children)

There’s a fork in the path (Choose; performing artist: Color Me Badd)

Baby run, cut a path across the blue skies (Run; performing artist: George Strait)

Set me on a straight path, what about I had to laugh at her (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

Happiness is a path, not a destination. (references; author: unknown)

How do crazy people go through the forest?  They take the psycho path. (references; author: unknown)

Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. (references; author: unknown)

Old folks say, "Only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom. (references; author: unknown)

On the Critical Path (1971)

Walk a Crooked Path (1969)

Or The Path to Immortality Sinhasta (1968)

The Bridal Path (1959)

Bandhur Path (1949)

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References

• Critical Path Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Playing Hide & Seek: A Non-Churchgoer's Path to Finding God (reference)

• Walking the Thames Path : 25 Circular Walks from Thames Head to Greenwich (reference)

• Islamic Ruling on Male and Female Circumcision (The Right Path to Health - Health Education Through Religion , No 8) (reference)

• One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi (reference)

• Discovering Kwan Yin : A Path Toward Clarity and Peace (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Critical Path Aids Project (reference)

• Path (reference)

• Shining Path (reference)

• Vyzvol Nyi Shlyakh = Liberation Path (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Windham Hill: Water's Path (reference)

• Path to Paradise - The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (reference)

• Path to Stardom: Tim McGraw (reference)

• Torvill & Dean - Path to Perfection (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pilgrim Path of Silence (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• DISCWASHER 1230 Perfect Path Cassette Head Cleaner (reference)

• Panamax Max Tel/1 Module For Use With Max 6 All Path (reference)

• Toshiba 3.5IN Flash Path Floppy Disk Adapter (reference)

• Auto Path VA Red Hat Host LTU & Software Kit 1 Host LTU (reference)

• AUTO PATH VA WIN2K-10 HOST (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Wilton Armetale Garden Path Bowl (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown are 1 man and 2 women riding bicycles along a path. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Various images of 3 people riding bicycles on a wooded bike path. There is a man, a youn woman and an older woman. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Diagram of possible sound wave paths in water Wave-path O-C-E came close to describing refractive path of sound in SOFAR layer Sound path model developed in 1930's for radio acoustic ranging work Didn't yet understand the channeling effect of the velocity minimum Furthest RAR use was out to 206 miles offshore in 1925. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wiredrag hung up on obstruction at buoy no. 4 Note "V" of buoy path characteristic of obstruction discovery Wiredrag party off of EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A path through the dunes. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Wind-sculpted sand on a path through the dunes. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Clean Air Facility on a day without a horizon. Flags mark path. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Heritage Path, Delaware River in the background. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The path that leads to the tide gate at Army Creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There is the path of wisdom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1929)

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The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it.

This being the case, when a convent was found on our path, we were compelled to penetrate it.

The three figures standing at the edge of the muddy path had pinched cheeks and watery eyes

At terra at this fateful hour I call upon all heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lighting with its rapid wrath, And the winds with the swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All this I place,By God's Almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness

There was a cow dung in the path, and I must needs try my activity by attempting to leap over it.

One early thrush gave me a note or two as I drove along the woodland path.

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Health

The path to drug addiction begins with the act of taking drugs. (references)

Another experimental path aimed at improving drug delivery into the CNS is called interstitial chemotherapy. (references)

Most physicians suggest that treatments for impotence proceed along a path moving from least invasive to most invasive. (references)

Business

It also set the path for the January 1999 liberalization of the Mercosur data transmission market. (references)

The most common path of distribution for hazardous waste management services is through direct sales. (references)

A normal telephone connection will provide the return path for two-way communication with service providers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

Some members and leaders of IRP and Adolat-True Path chose, or were forced, to flee abroad. (references)

Uzbekistan

In the early 1990's, opposition activists announced the formation of the religious Adolat-True Path Party but never pursued formal registration, claiming that their members were afraid of government reprisals. (references)

Economic History

Georgia

Georgia professes to choose open markets and the rule of law as a path to economic growth and wishes to be seen as an example of conversion from a command to a democratic and free market system. (references)

Human Rights

Angola

On July 30, 25 FAA soldiers threatened 2 NGO employees and obstructed their path after the employees refused to take them to Malange. (references)

Bolivia

The police suspect the involvement of citizens, as well as Peruvians who have received training from Shining Path terrorists. (references)

Indigenous People

Cameroon

Local Pygmies along the proposed path of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline continue to complain that they have not been compensated fairly for their land like their Bantu neighbors. (references)

Political Economy

Croatia

The SAA defines Croatia's path of integration with the EU, leading eventually to full membership. (references)

Haiti

Since 1986 Haiti has moved unevenly along a path of constitutional rule. (references)

Zambia

With some deviance, the MMD has generally pursued this path since 1991, although calls for a constitutional amendment for a third presidential term early in 2001 caused a split within the party. (references)

Political Rights

Singapore

Opposition parties are free to contest elections, and the voting and vote-counting systems are fair and free from tampering; however, the PAP, which has held power continuously and overwhelmingly for more than 3 decades, uses the Government's extensive powers to place formidable obstacles in the path of political opponents. (references)

Trade

Argentina

In 1998, the Argentine government embarked on a new path of issuing regulations mandating that certain products meet safety requirements. (references)

Worker Rights

Thailand

Also, police officers do not view antitrafficking as a path to advancement because their superiors do not emphasize it. Narcotics and serious crime are the preferred career concentrations, while the attitude that trafficking also qualifies as serious crime is only slowly developing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions using "path": absolute path ♦ actual flight path ♦ approach path ♦ assigned flight path ♦ auroral path ♦ bang path ♦ be on the war path ♦ beat a path ♦ beaten path ♦ bicycle path ♦ blind path ♦ bridle path ♦ bye path ♦ carve a path ♦ cinder path ♦ circular path ♦ class I bike path ♦ continuous path control of motion ♦ CPS critical path analysis ♦ critical path method ♦ critical path scheduling ♦ crooked path ♦ cross smb.'s path ♦ cross the path of ♦ cycle path ♦ data path ♦ departure path ♦ draw a red herring across the path ♦ false ils glide path ♦ false path ♦ final approach path ♦ fire rescue path ♦ flare path ♦ flight path ♦ flow path ♦ garden path ♦ Glide path ♦ glide path receiver ♦ glide path sector obstacle clearance ♦ glide path transmitter ♦ gravel path ♦ half ils glide path sector ♦ hamiltonian path ♦ hard work is the path to success ♦ holding path ♦ Honea Path ♦ horse path ♦ ils glide path ♦ ils glide path angle ♦ ils glide path bend ♦ ils glide path sector ♦ indicated flight path ♦ indicated glide path angular errer ♦ indicated glide path curvature ♦ indicated ils glide path ♦ indicated ils glide path angle ♦ indicated ils glide path sector ♦ infeasible path ♦ initial approach path ♦ initial path sweeping ♦ intended flight path ♦ intermediate approach path ♦ keep in the right path ♦ label switched path ♦ lead smb. up the garden path ♦ leave the beaten path ♦ mail path ♦ make a path ♦ make clear a path through ♦ method of path coefficients ♦ narrow path ♦ Natural Medicine Path ♦ nominal approach path ♦ nominal flight path ♦ open shortest path first ♦ path breaker ♦ path coverage testing ♦ path expression ♦ path finder ♦ path lab ♦ path line ♦ path of least resistance ♦ path Pascal ♦ path to glory ♦ plane of the nominal ils glide path ♦ primrose path ♦ quantum path ♦ remove obstacles from one's path ♦ retrace one's path ♦ right path ♦ scan path ♦ segmented approach path ♦ shovel a path through the snow ♦ sidetone path loss ♦ sneak path ♦ speech path ♦ Spiritual Medicine Path ♦ stand in smb.'s path ♦ storm path ♦ sunken path ♦ sweep all obstacles from one's path. Additional references.

Beginning with "path": path-based, path-breaking, path-building, path-clamp, path-clearing, path-counting, path-edging, path-finder, path-finders, path-length, path-node, path-side, path-smothering, path-way.

Ending with "path": cliff-path, flight-path, time-path, tow-path.

Containing "path": A-path-y, Open Shortest-Path First, Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol.

Afrikaans

wandelpad, baan (course, orbit, playground, race-course, road, route, running, running track, track, trajectory, way, width). (various references)

Albanian

shteg (aisle, alley, approach, course, footpath, footway, gangway, gap, Lane, loophole, pass, pathway, ride, trace, track, trackway, trail, way), rruginë (alley, bedside rug, driveway, gangway, Lane, walk), rrugë (approach, approaches, Avenue, course, cycle, drag, drive, gateway, haul, journey, milage, mileage, pathway, ride, road, roadway, route, Street, trail, traverse, way), orbitë (circle, orb, orbit), mënyrë (cut, device, fashion, form, manner, mean, means, method, modality, mode, rate, sort, touch, way, wise), itinerar (itinerary, route, waybill). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نهج (approach, process, tactic, way), ‏رصيف (dock, flagging, footpath, kerb, levee, recife, ridge, sidewalk, stance), ‏إختصار لمعمل التحاليل الطبية, ‏طريق (approach, carriage way, course, lane, line, pass, passage, pathway, ride, right path, road, route, row, run, runway, rut, track, trail, way), ‏طريقة في الحياة, ‏زقاق (alley, alley-way, back street, cul de sac, lane, side street), ‏درب (coach, discipline, drill, exercise, groom, pathway, school, train), ‏قناة (aqueduct, canal, channel, chase, conduit, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, passage, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway), دَرْب (trail), ‏مدار (hub, orb, orbit), ‏مجرى نهر (channel), ‏مجاز (allegory, corridor, figure, image, imagery, metaphor, passage, track, way), ‏مسار (channel, course, route, run, track, trajectory), ‏ممشى (aisle, gangway), ‏ممر (footpath, gangway, lane, passage, passageway, pathway, track, way), ‏سبيل (avenue, course, pathway, track, way). (various references)

Bulgarian 

траектория (locus, trajectory), курс (course, footsteps, lode, market, quotation, race, rate of exchange, route, run, tack, way), насока (direction, guide line, line, movement, pattern, run, sense, set, stream, tide, turn), линия на поведение (course, policy, proceeding), пътечка (pathway), пътека (alley, footpath, footway, lode, pathway, runner, runway, track, trail, walk, way), път (approach, door, drive, driveway, fetch, gateway, itinerary, journey, key, lode, pad, part, parting, passage, pathway, race, ride, riding, road, roadway, route, time, track, trail, tube, way), професия (business, career, craft, metier, occupation, profession, shop, station, trade), поле за дейност, поприще (arena, avocation, career, field, line, stage, walk of life), писта (course, gangway, landing strip, make way, runway, track). (various references)

Chinese 

道路 (road, way). (various references)

Croatian

puta. (various references)

Czech

pìšina (footpath, pathway, walk), stezka (pathway, trace, trail), dráha (career, course, race, railway, route, track, trajectory), cestièka, cesta (alley, byway, career, channel, crossing, drive, itinerary, jaunt, journey, Lane, passage, pathway, ride, road, route, tour, track, trail, travel, trip, venture, voyage, walk, way). (various references)

Danish

sti (footpath, footway, pedestrian path, walkway). (various references)

Dutch

pad (toad), baan (corridor, course, function, job, office, orbit, passage, post, race-course, road, route, running track, track, trajectory, way, width). (various references)

Esperanto

vojeto, irejo (road, way). (various references)

Faeroese

rás, gøta (street). (various references)

Farsi 

مسیر (Career, Course, Orbit, Point, Race, Run, Strand, Street, Trade, Trajectory, Traverse, Vector), طریقت , جاده مال رو, جاده (Causeway, Line, Pad, Pathway, Street, Track, Turnpike, Way), راه (Access, Entry, Highway, How, Manner, Method, Pass, Road, Track, Way), باریک راه . (various references)

Finnish

polku (path footpath, track, trail). (various references)

French

sentier (pathway), chemin (pathway), trajet, trajectoire. (various references)

Frisian

paad. (various references)

German

Pfad (alley, pathway, trace, track, trail), Weg (alley, Avenue, away, channel, distance, errand, forth, gone, journey, lane, March, method, off, pathway, road, route, switchback, tack, track, trail, walk, way), Steg (bridge, catwalk, footbridge, landing stage, rest, strap, web), Bahn (alley, course, Gore, Lane, length, pathway, railroad, railway, road, route, streetcar, track, train, tram, way, web). (various references)

Greek 

μονοπάτι (footpath, pathway, track, trail), διαδρομή (course, journey, route). (various references)

Hebrew 

משעול (pathway), מעגילה (circle, cylinder, orbit, roller), מסלול (course, road, run, track, walk, way), שביל (footpath, pathway, trail, walk), ארח (manner, mode, pass, route, way), דרך (course, fashion, journey, manner, mode, road, route, through, way), נתיב (pathway, road, route, track, trail, way). (various references)

Hungarian

pálya (bed, course, field, ice run, lane, line, metals, orbit, run, track), útvonal (circuit, course, itinerary, line, route, track), ösvény (byway, footpath, loaning, pad, pathway, track, trail). (various references)

Indonesian

rintisan (pioneering effort), merintis (clear a way, do pioneering work), lintasan (track, trajectory, way), jalan kecil (byway), jalan (course, go, manner, road, street, way). (various references)

Irish

cosán. (various references)

Italian

sentiero (footpath, pathway, track, trail, walk), viale (avenue, Boulevard, driveway, lane, parkway, walk), via (and so on, Avenue, away, by, course, forth, go ahead, off, pass, past, road, route, shoo, street, via, way), traiettoria (flight, trajectory), cammino (journey, road, route, track, walk, walking, way). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

通り道 (one's way, passage, route), 道筋 (itinerary, route), パクパク人形 (late-night phone call, Pacific, Pacific League, packet, pagoda, pajamas, Pascal, pass, puppet with a moving mouth, pyjamas, state of being dried out), 径路 (process, route), 小道 (lane), 小径 (lane). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パス (pass), しょうけい (a short break or breather, accession, aspiration, brief recess, commerce and economics, expedient, fine scenery, hieroglyphics, inheritance, lane, longing, recess, scenic view, short rest, shortcut, subtotal, succession, type of character representing pictures), こみち (lane), けいろ (channel, course, disposition, hair color, process, route), みちすじ (itinerary, route), とおりみち (one's way, passage, route). (various references)

Korean 

경로 (paths). (various references)

Lombard

sendé. (various references)

Malagasy

lalan-kaleha, lalana. (various references)

Manx

cassan (passage, pavement, sidewalk, thoroughfare, trajectory). (various references)

Norwegian

sti. (various references)

Occitan

viòl, sendièr, camin. (various references)