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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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Path : \Path\ (p[.a][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pathed
(p[.a][th]d); pr.p. & vb. n. Pathing.]
To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.]
``Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways.'' --Drayton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Path : \Path\, v. i.
To walk or go. [R.] --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Path : \Path\ (p[.a]th), n.; 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Path : n._1._A_bang_path_or_explicitly_routed_{Internet_address">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).
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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