 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {way},
{way of life}]
2: a way especially designed for a particular use
3: an established line of travel or access [syn: {route}, {itinerary}]
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" [syn: {track}, {course}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
path \path\ (p[.a]th), noun; pl. {paths} (p[.a][th]z). [AS.
p[ae][eth], pa[eth]; akin to D. pad, G. pfad, of uncertain
origin; cf. Gr. pa'tos, Skr. patha, path. [root]21.]
1. A trodden way; a footway.
The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. --Dryden.
2. 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.
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. --Ps.
xxv. 10.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. --Gray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Path \Path\ (p[.a][th]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pathed}
(p[.a][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Pathing}.]
To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.]
''Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways.'' --Drayton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Path \Path\, verb (used without an object)
To walk or go. [R.] --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "path":
air lane, air line, air route, airway, alameda, approach, artery,
avenue, beat, beaten path, beaten track, berm, bicycle path,
boardwalk, boulevard, break, bridle path, broken circuit, catwalk,
channel, circuit, circuital field, closed circuit,
complete circuit, condensation trail, contrail, corridor, course,
dead circuit, direction, drag, esplanade, fastwalk, flight path,
foot pavement, footpath, footway, galvanic circuit, game plan,
garden path, groove, highway, hiking trail, hot circuit, itinerary,
lane, lateral circuit, leg, line, live circuit, loop,
magnetic circuit, mall, means, method, microcircuit,
multiple circuit, multiple series, orbit, parade, passage, pathway,
piste, plan, prado, primrose path, printed circuit, procedure,
process, promenade, public walk, road, round, route, run, runway,
rut, scenario, scent, scheme, sea lane, series multiple, short,
short circuit, shortcut, sidewalk, signs, spoor, strategy, street,
technique, thoroughfare, tour, towing path, towpath, traces, track,
trade route, trail, traject, trajectory, trajet, trottoir,
vapor trail, vector field, wake, walk, walkway, way
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
path n.
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] 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).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
path
1. A {bang path} or explicitly routed {Internet
address}; a node-by-node specification of a link between two
machines.
2. {pathname}.
3. The list of directories the kernel
(under {Unix}) or the command interpreter (under {MS-DOS})
searches for {executables}. It is stored as part of the
{environment} in both operating systems.
Other, similar constructs abound under Unix; the {C}
{preprocessor}, for example, uses such a search path to locate
"#include" files.
[{Jargon File}]
(1996-11-21)
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