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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

path*pæθ, pɑθ(n.)(pl.)paths

  1. a way beaten or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.

  2. a narrow walk or way:

    a bicycle path.

  3. a route or course along which something moves:

    the path of a hurricane.

  4. a course of action, conduct, or procedure:

    the path of righteousness.

  5. (in some computer operating systems) a listing of the route through directories and subdirectories that locates and thereby names a specific file or program on a disk drive. 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.

    Category: Computers

* (patz, pӓtz, paths, pӓths)..

Origin of path:

bef. 900; ME; OE pæth; c. OFris path, pad, OHG phad (G Pfad)

-path

  1. 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).

    Category: Affix

path.

  1. pathological.

    Category: Pathology

  2. pathology.

    Category: Pathology

Princeton's WordNet

  1. way, path, way of life(noun)

    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. path(noun)

    a way especially designed for a particular use

  3. path, route, itinerary(noun)

    an established line of travel or access

  4. path, track, course(noun)

    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"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. path(noun)æθ, pɑθ

    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. pathæθ, pɑθ

    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. pathæθ, pɑθ

    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

Wiktionary

  1. path(Noun)

    a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.

  2. path(Noun)

    a course taken.

  3. path(Noun)

    A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.

  4. path(Noun)

    a metaphorical course.

  5. path(Noun)

    a method or direction of proceeding.

  6. path(Noun)

    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).

  7. path(Noun)

    a continuous map from the unit interval to a topological space .

  8. Origin: pæþ, from paþaz (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), from Scytho-Sarmatian (compare Avestan pɑntɑ, gen. pɑθɑ 'way', Old Persian pɑthi-), from pent- (compare English find). More at find.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Path(noun)

    a trodden way; a footway

  2. Path(noun)

    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. Path(verb)

    to make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one)

  4. Path(verb)

    to walk or go

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).


Translations for path

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

path(noun)

a way made across the ground by the passing of people or animals

There is a path through the fields; a mountain path.

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