path

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A trodden track or way.
2. n. A road, way, or track made for a particular purpose: a bicycle path.
3. n. The route or course along which something travels or moves: the path of a hurricane.
4. n. A course of action or conduct: the path of righteousness.
5. n. Computer Science A sequence of commands or a link between points that is needed to reach a particular goal.
6. n. Computer Science A pathname.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A way beaten or trodden by the feet of men or beasts; a track formed incidentally by passage or traffic between places rather than expressly made to accommodate traffic; a narrow or unimportant road; a footway; hence, in a more general sense, any road, way, or route.
2. n. The way, course, or track which an animal or any other thing follows in the air, in water, or in space: as, the path of a fish in the sea or of a bird in the air; the path of a planet or comet; the path of a meteor.
3. n. Figuratively, course in life; course of action, conduct, or procedure.
4. n. Synonyms and Track, Trail, etc. See way.
5. To tread; walk or go in; follow.
6. To mark out a path for; guide.
7. To pave.
8. To go as in a path; walk abroad.
9. [Some commentators, instead of path, suggest hadst, march, put, pass, or pace.]
10. n. Abbreviations of pathology, pathological.

Wiktionary

1. n. a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
2. n. a course taken.
3. n. paganism A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
4. n. a metaphorical course.
5. n. a method or direction of proceeding.
6. n. 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
7. n. 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).
8. n. topology a continuous map from the unit interval to a topological space .

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A trodden way; a footway.
2. n. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.
3. v. rare To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).
4. v. rare To walk or go.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a line or route along which something travels or moves
2. n. an established line of travel or access
3. n. a way especially designed for a particular use
4. n. a course of conduct