(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).
Wayside
Definition:
(n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The commercial world – with the egregious exception of the "too big to fail" banks – is run on empirical principles: companies that work tend to survive and thrive, while those that don't fall by the wayside.
(2) That quickly fell by the wayside as welfare became universal and blind to individual merit or misbehaviour.
(3) Neat and tidy orchards, well-stocked farms lined the wayside, and the British soldier did not fail to admire the place and its inhabitants.
(4) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
(5) As one potential drug after another has fallen by the wayside, scientists have begun to look for ways to treat people at a much earlier stage, when their brain is not so badly damaged.
(6) You’d be forgiven for thinking that when innovative new services and products reach the market and cause established household names to fall by the wayside, it’s simply a matter of consumer choice.
(7) The number of failed IVAs is also expected to fuel bankruptcy numbers in the new year, with as many as one in five debt repayment plans falling by the wayside , according to debt charities.
(8) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
(9) "They hate us, with a vengeance," said another Liverpool officer, adding that the rioters were not dissimilar to the officer's son, who had "fallen by the wayside" ... "He's grown up in a hard area, you know.
(10) One secretariat staff told Irin: “Now, it’s a bunch of people in New York writing the SG report, and who literally have taken over a lot of the process.” Within this messy landscape, some proposals have begun floating to the top, and, more importantly, others have fallen by the wayside.
(11) Smart fridges may well be the appliance of the future, or could fall by the wayside as too much tech for too little gain, but the idea of connected sensors and smart devices making decisions without our input will continue.
(12) In the interest of reaching a new cohort of younger and more diverse workers, immediate ambitions to increase membership levels have fallen by the wayside.
(13) But Guttenberg is now one of a number of notable CDU figures who have fallen by the wayside as Merkel has tightened her grip on the party.
(14) Britain cannot afford to be a grinning giant left by the wayside as the EU and the world struggle on.
(15) Yet attempts to grasp at wider meanings are likely to fall by the wayside on Monday when the theatricality of "the trial of the century" takes over.
(16) If you look at it that way, fine art may go by the wayside, and fashion, which has a bit more effort put into it, will take over.
(17) When they do, girls and women’s health and rights will be first to fall by the wayside if governments fail to sustain or increase investments.
(18) The rhetoric that the Castros have used against the United States has fallen to the wayside, they have lost the argument they have used.
(19) However, this group fell by the wayside as bacteria evolved enzymes that broke the drugs apart.
(20) I think we've perfected a lot of the tragedy and we're getting there faster than a lot of other places that may be a little more reasoned, but my dangerous idea kind of involves this fellow who got left by the wayside in the 20th century and seemed to be almost the butt end of the joke of the 20th century; a fellow named Karl Marx .