“paths” is a form of
path
[pʰɑːθ] noun, verb
Forms paths pathing pathed
- noun A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- noun A course taken. “the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm”
- noun A metaphorical course or route; progress.
- noun A method or direction of proceeding.
- noun (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- noun (computing) A 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.”
- noun (graph theory) 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).
- noun (topology) A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
- verb (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
- verb (computing, intransitive) To 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.”
- verb (video games, intransitive) To pathfind.
- noun (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), but this is disputed.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad, Pad (“path”), West Frisian paad (“path”), Dutch pad (“path”), German Pfad (“path”), German Low German Padd (“path”), Luxembourgish Pad (“path”). Indo-Iranian cognates could be Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊, “way”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎰 (p-θ /paθi/), Hindi पथ (path), Sanskrit पन्था (panthā, “path”). See also English find. Doublet of panth.
Shortening.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A trodden way; a footway.
- 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.
- verb To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.]
- verb To walk or go. [R.] Shak.
Etymology [As. pad, G. pfad, of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. patha, path. sq. root21.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “path”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details