(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).
(v. i.) To walk or go.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(2) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(3) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(4) Cholecystokinin (CCK) as the sulfated (CCK-8S) and unsulfated (CCK-8U) octapeptide sequences, and CR 1409 were administered intraventricularly while the action potential (EAP) in the granular cell layer of the hippocampal dentate gyrus evoked by perforant path stimulation was recorded.
(5) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
(6) In sum, these studies demonstrate the novel phospholipid ceramide 1-phosphate in HL-60 cells and suggest the possibility that a path exists from sphingomyelin to ceramide 1-phosphate via the phosphorylation of ceramide.
(7) The independent Low Pay Commission will advise on the path future increases should take, taking into account the state of the economy.
(8) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
(9) The effect of the perforant path stimulation on the CA1 and CA3 neurons was investigated in incubated slices of the guinea pig hippocampus.
(10) And those who hope to lead Labour now seem to be agreed on one thing: that the path back to power will be paved with talk about aspiration .
(11) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(12) The diagnosis was made during the surgical operation which revealed a neurinoma of nerve XI (spinal) in its intracranial path.
(13) The previous Ba’athist and Shia governments tried to deviate the Muslim generation from their path through their educational programmes that concord with their governments and political whims.
(14) An example of a most useful and predictive measure of hypoxic stress is optical spectrophotometry which uses time resolved ranging methods to measure optical path lengths to quantitate hemoglobin deoxygenation in tissues.
(15) "We believe that such a path would be catastrophic for the UK, for Europe and for the protection of human rights around the world."
(16) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
(17) Kisker that appeared in the 'sixties of the present century are milestones along an important path of panoramic changes in the recent history of psychiatry.
(18) Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1 molecules that were either transmembrane- (H-2Db) or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored (Qa2) were labeled with antibody-coated gold particles and moved across the cell surface with a laser optical tweezers until they encountered a barrier, the barrier-free path length (BFP).
(19) In 2010, Path licensed the Silcs design to Kessel Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH (Kessel) of Frankfurt, Germany.
(20) The diffusion paths are calculated by a variant of the time-dependent Hartree approximation which we call LES (locally enhanced sampling).
Towpath
Definition:
(n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) No wonder there is such anticipation on the towpath.
(3) Almost every month, new kinds of data are incorporated into Google Maps: in June, it was 2,000 miles of British canal towpaths, complete with bridges and locks; it was bike lanes .
(4) Yet when I look in the mirror at my towpath-pounding legs, my prominent collarbones, swelling biceps and flat, gravel-hardened feet, I am looking at my father's body.
(5) Once the route joins the Wey Navigation, it follows the towpath right into Guildford and almost to the station.
(6) We used to climb trees and track courting couples, and dig animal traps on the towpath and cover them up with grass to disguise them,” he recalled.
(7) Brian Sharpe, editor of Towpath Talk magazine, said: "There is a lot of pressure get out of this mess, and I think it is a mess.
(8) Then you had to slither along a treacherous towpath, scramble over huge pipes pumping unimaginable quantities of dirty floodwater into the heavily swollen river Parrett, and slide down the bank to the lane outside Steve’s home.
(9) The hungry eye was guided by fragments towards a poetic whole: a few weeds summoned up a towpath, a single flat created a public house.
(10) You don’t have to be a boater to appreciate London’s navigable waterways but living like this has encouraged me to explore places along less well-trodden towpaths.
(11) The product of another era An interesting route to the New Era estate is along the towpath of the Grand Union canal, which in this stretch separates Islington from Hoxton and (at one time) the middle from the working classes.
(12) Take a right fork for the Thames Path, which passes through a wooded area and across a field, onto the towpath, where you turn left and follow the river.
(13) I don’t believe in the Pusher , the shadowy serial killer rumoured to stalk the towpath, but the junkies put me right off.