n. | 1. | A trodden way; a footway. |
2. | A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; | |
v. t. | 1. | To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). |
v. i. | 1. | To walk or go. |
Noun | 1. | path - 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" Synonyms: way of life, way |
2. | path - a way especially designed for a particular use | |
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4. | path - 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" |
1. | (networking) | path - A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. | |
2. | (file system) | path - pathname. | |
3. | (operating system) | path - 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. |