Meaning

3 senses

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

  2. (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.

  3. (intransitive)To pathfind.

Examples

889 sentences

  1. It's not a road, but a path.

    Це не дорога, а стежка. — deniko

    ruЭто не дорога, а тропа. — soweli_Elepanto

    deDas ist keine Straße, sondern ein Pfad. — Tamy

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  2. Tom chose a different path.

    Том обрав інший шлях. — deniko

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  3. I chose another path.

    Я обрав інший шлях. — deniko

    deIch habe einen anderen Weg gewählt. — raggione

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  4. I'll take this path.

    Я піду цим шляхом. — deniko

    deIch werde diesen Weg nehmen. — raggione

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  5. We walked along a narrow path.

    deWir gingen einen schmalen Pfad entlang. — Wolf

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Origin

From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germ

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.

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Forms

paths, pathing, pathed, pathed
Base formpath · to path
3rd person singularpaths
Present participlepathing
Past simplepathed
Past participlepathed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypath
he, she, itpaths

Past simpleLesson

all personspathed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pathed
he, she, ithas pathed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill path

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

6 patterns
  • down the path
  • the wrong path
  • on the path
  • narrow path
  • wrong path
  • the path was

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
patentlypaternalC1paternitypatheticpatheticallypathogenpathological

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