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PATH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A course of conduct
Example:
genius usually follows a revolutionary path
Synonyms:
path; way; way of life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("path" is a kind of...):
course; course of action (a mode of action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "path"):
ambages ((archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action)
primrose path (a life of ease and pleasure)
straight and narrow; strait and narrow (the way of proper and honest behavior)
hadith; Sunna; Sunnah ((Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran)
warpath (a course leading to warfare or battle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A way especially designed for a particular use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("path" is a kind of...):
way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "path"):
bridle path; bridle road (a path suitable for riding or leading horses (but not for cars))
crossing; crossover; crosswalk (a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other)
lane (a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic)
footpath; pathway (a trodden path)
towing path; towpath (a path along a canal or river used by animals towing boats)
paseo; walk; walkway (a path set aside for walking)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An established line of travel or access
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("path" is a kind of...):
line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "path"):
electron orbit; orbit (the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom)
paper round; paper route (the route taken when delivering newspapers every day)
beeline (the most direct route)
circuit (an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to)
crosscut (a diagonal path)
supply line; supply route (a route over which supplies can be delivered)
line of fire (the path of a missile discharged from a firearm)
flyway; migration route (the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate)
fairway (the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters)
direction; way (a line leading to a place or point)
trade route (a route followed by traders (usually in caravans))
feeder line (a branching path off of a main transportation line (especially an airline))
main line (the principal route of a transportation system)
data track; track ((computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data)
air lane; airway; flight path; skyway (a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another)
approach pattern; pattern; traffic pattern (the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport)
flight path (the path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the air)
beat; round (a regular route for a sentry or policeman)
bus route (the route regularly followed by a passenger bus)
line of flight (the path along which a freely moving object travels through the air)
line of march (the route along which a column advances)
celestial orbit; orbit (the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another)
Instance hyponyms:
Northwest Passage (a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906))
Sense 4
Meaning:
A line or route along which something travels or moves
Example:
the course of the river
Synonyms:
course; path; track
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("path" is a kind of...):
line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "path"):
collision course (a course of a moving object that will lead to a collision if it continues unchanged)
inside track (the inner side of a curved racecourse)
round (the course along which communications spread)
steps (the course along which a person has walked or is walking in)
belt; swath (a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing))
trail (a track or mark left by something that has passed)
Context examples:
Phase 0 clinical trials are intended to enable researchers to understand the path of the drug in the body and its efficacy.
(Phase 0 Trial, NCI Thesaurus)
They alighted out of the coach near a small foot-path in a field, and Glumdalclitch setting down my travelling box, I went out of it to walk.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Along the way, the cell extracts a relatively small amount of energy from glucose in the form of ATP, 2 ATP molecules collected for each glucose molecule that starts down the glycolytic path.
(Glycolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The pictures are created by a computer linked to an x-ray machine that scans the body in a spiral path.
(Helical computed tomography, NCI Dictionary)
As he spoke two men came down the garden path, from round the angle of the house.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The international team has made the first robust detection of a young planet, named PDS 70b, cleaving a path through the planet-forming material surrounding the young star.
(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)
The effect is most pronounced near sunset, when light from the sun passes through a longer path in the atmosphere than it does at mid-day.
(Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA)
On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"You are on the right track then. Only you've come by the foot-path."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down the right path as nothing else had ever done.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
