Path
[pɑːθ] or [pæθ]
Definition
(noun.) a way especially designed for a particular use.
(noun.) an established line of travel or access.
(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'.
Checked by Ida--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A trodden way; a footway.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).
(v. i.) To walk or go.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Track (trodden), foot-way, pathway.[2]. Road, way, course, route, passage, avenue.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Footpath, pathway, road, track, course, route, method
Checker: Phyllis
Definition
n. a way trodden out by the feet: track: road: course of action or conduct:—pl. Paths (p?i>thz).—n. Path′finder one who explores the route a pioneer.—adj. Path′less without a path: untrodden.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are walking in a narrow and rough path, stumbling over rocks and other obstructions, denotes that you will have a rough encounter with adversity, and feverish excitement will weigh heavily upon you. To dream that you are trying to find your path, foretells that you will fail to accomplish some work that you have striven to push to desired ends. To walk through a pathway bordered with green grass and flowers, denotes your freedom from oppressing loves.
Typist: Preston
Examples
- Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The path just admitted three. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It comes this way--comes very faSt. How loud sounds its rattle on the paved path! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Will wind, water, fire, lend me a path to Moore? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Besides, is it not a shame, that the genius of Adrian should fade from the earth like a flower in an untrod mountain-path, fruitless? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Obviously, as the cylinder was turned, the needle followed a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed screw. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If we proceed along the old path, my belief, I said, is that we shall find the answer. Plato. The Republic.
- She had not far retraced her steps when sounds in front of her betokened the approach of persons in conversation along the same path. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was Bessie, I knew well enough; but I did not stir; her light step came tripping down the path. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- After that there was no sign, but the path ran right on into Ragged Shaw, the wood which backed on to the school. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Once make her certain that the path of duty, as she commonly phrased it, lay in any given direction, and fire and water could not keep her from it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Show me, show me the path! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- How she hated walking up the churchyard path, along the red carpet, continuing in motion, in their sight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knows how vast the field is, and how many paths constantly beckon him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- How Tom, genius-like, struck out new paths, and, relinquishing the old names of the letters, called U _bell_ and P _bottle_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Paths, hedges, fields, houses, and trees, were enveloped in one deep shade. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Bishop, mentally perambulating among paths of peace, was altogether swallowed up in absence of mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Few rustic paths are wide enough for five, and Bella and the Secretary dropped behind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He has strewn with misery the paths of others, and he will live to strew with misery the path of this woman by his side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If the gentleman's servant would wheel along the paths, he could keep nigh us, and we could lift it over the stiles, and that. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And that same evening, walking among the moon-lit forest paths, I poured forth my whole heart, its transport and its hope, to my friend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For a while, I hid myself among some lanes and by-paths, and then struck off to walk all the way to London. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He walked along towards home without attending to paths. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But again the frost came, and made the paths of the sea secure. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- For years the Turks and Byzantines had intermarried, and hunted in couples in strange by-paths of diplomacy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Like one who has lost his way and is weary, she sat and saw as in one glance all the paths of her young hope which she should never find again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There were no beaten paths, and the way was beset with unknown perils; there was no experience to guide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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