What's the difference between path and walk?

Path


Definition:

  • (n.) A trodden way; a footway.
  • (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).

Walk


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
  • (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
  • (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
  • (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
  • (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
  • (v. i.) To move off; to depart.
  • (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
  • (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
  • (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
  • (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
  • (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
  • (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
  • (n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
  • (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
  • (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
  • (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (5) step lengths, stride times, double-support times, cadence and walking speed.
  • (6) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (7) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (8) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
  • (9) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
  • (10) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (11) He was unable to walk alone at 2 years of age and developed seizures and intermittent ataxia at 5 years of age.
  • (12) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (13) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
  • (14) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
  • (15) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
  • (16) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
  • (17) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
  • (18) By the isolation of overlapping cosmid clones and 'chromosome walking' studies from the H-2Kk gene, we have obtained cosmid clones encoding the H-2Klk gene from two separate cosmid libraries.
  • (19) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
  • (20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.