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Definition of 'Path'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) path
a way beaten or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.

2.  path
a narrow walk or way:
a bicycle path.

3.  path
a route or course along which something moves:
the path of a hurricane.

4.  path
a course of action, conduct, or procedure:
the path of righteousness.

5.  path
(in some computer operating systems)

6.  path
a listing of the route through directories and subdirectories that locates and thereby names a specific file or program on a disk drive.

7.  path
the currently active list of all such routes that tells the operating system where to find programs, enabling a user to run them from other directories.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE pæth; c. OFris

Definition of 'Path'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) way, path, way of life
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. (noun) path
a way especially designed for a particular use

3. (noun) path, route, itinerary
an established line of travel or access

4. (noun) path, track, course
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"

Definition of 'Path'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) path
an area for walking on that leads from one place to another
a path that goes around the lake; Is this the path to the river?

2. path
the direction sth or sb is moving in
The tornado destroyed everything in its path.; a small boat in the path of the oil tanker

3. path
the things sb does to achieve sth or that happen to sb in their life
his path to power; to take/choose a path in life

Definition of 'Path'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Path
a trodden way; a footway

2. (noun) Path
a way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action

3. (verb) Path
to make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one)

4. (verb) Path
to walk or go

Definitions of 'Path'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Path
1. A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. Though these are now obsolete as a form of addressing, they still show up in diagnostics and trace headers occasionally (e.g. in NNTP headers).

2. [Unix] A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory (as opposed to relative to the current directory; the latter is sometimes called a relative path). This is also called a pathname.

3. [Unix and MS-DOS/Windows] The search path, an environment variable specifying the directories in which the shell (COMMAND.COM, under MS-DOS) should look for commands. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix (for example, the C preprocessor has a search path it uses in looking for #include files).

Translation of 'Path'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a way made across the ground by the passing of people or animals There is a path through the fields; a mountain path.
Afrikaans: pad	Arabic: مَمَر، شِعْب	Bulgarian: пътека
Brazilian: caminho	Czech: pěšina	German: der Pfad
Danish: sti; -sti	Greek: μονοπάτι	Spanish: camino, sendero
Estonian: rada	Farsi: راه	Finnish: polku
French: sentier	Hebrew: שְׁבִיל	Hindi: मार्ग
Croatian: staza	Hungarian: ösvény	Indonesian: jalan setapak
Icelandic: gangstígur, slóð	Italian: sentiero	Japanese: 小道
Korean: 오솔길	Lithuanian: takas	Latvian: taka
Malay: lorong	Dutch: pad	Norwegian: sti, gang
Polish: ścieżka	Persian: راه	Pashto: لار
Portuguese: caminho	Romanian: cărare	Russian: тропинка; дорожка
Slovak: chodník, cestička	Slovenian: steza	Serbian: staza
Swedish: stig, gångstig	Thai: ทางเดิน	Turkish: patika
Taiwanese: 小徑	Ukrainian: доріжка; стежка	Urdu: راستہ
Vietnamese: đường mòn	Chinese: 小径
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