pathnoun詞源 1/pɑːθ/

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

  • Yet ere to to-morrow's ſun ſhall ſhew his head, / The dewy paths of meadows we will tread, / For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head.
  • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
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  A course taken.

  • the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm
  • Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.
• 3

  A metaphorical course or route; progress.

  • ⁠But thou and I have shaken hands, ⁠Till growing winters lay me low; ⁠My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover’d lands.
  • As I explored the possibility of a library science path, having previously been employed in libraries during my school career and afterwards, I decided that I needed to actually experience work in a library setting full time again […]
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  A method or direction of proceeding.

  • All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.
  • The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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  lifestylepaganismreligionA Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.

  • Use the network path \\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need.
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  graph-theorymathematicssciencesA 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).

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  mathematicssciencestopologyA continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.

pathverb詞源 1/pɑːθ/

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  To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

  • His ghoſtly counſells onely doe aduiſe, / The meanes hovv Langlies progenie may riſe, / Pathing young Henries vnaduiſed vvaies, / A Duke of Yorke from Cambridge houſe to raiſe, […]
• 2

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder).

  • Next, you need to path to the location of the executable and run it from there.
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  video-gamesTo pathfind.

pathnoun詞源 2

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  medicinesciencesPathology.