Word Finder - paths

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A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.

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A course taken.

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the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm

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A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.

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A metaphorical course.

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A method or direction of proceeding.

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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.

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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).

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A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.

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A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.

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

I don't know why our paths crossed tonight, but I'm glad they did.

Keep my men with food and water, and I'll marry you if our paths ever cross, he said.

There are a lot of different paths I'm following.

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels.

Grass had already begun to grow on the garden paths, and horses and calves were straying in the English park.

If our paths cross, it will probably signal the end of the world, but if they do, I'll consider sharing.

After randomly crossing paths with someone whose mind he couldn't penetrate, he'd suddenly found her in his house.

Viewed from a distance the mountains appear as dark perpendicular barriers, quite impenetrable; but narrow paths lead round the precipitous face of the hills, and when the inner side is gained a wonderful panorama opens out.

While my relationship with Martha LeBlanc, nee Rossi, dated back to our play pen years and kindergarten days, lately we've hiked different paths, reducing our contact to Christmas cards and once a month phone calls.

She went to him, ducking out of the paths of a few Guardians.

She could see the paths of currents.

He'd watched over Katie every night for months while she and Rhyn struggled to find their paths.

Rhyn was the first to engage any demon in his way while Tamer and Erik beheaded every creature that crossed their paths.

She didn't know the honey-hued man before her, but she couldn't help but feel their paths were entwined.

The warriors moved and shifted as one, and she backpedaled quickly out of their paths as they exited the dwelling.

Mansr strode down one of the many paths lining the rocky hills, away from the encampment and into a part of the hills untouched by any but the moons' light.

It was not likely for the paths of a soldier and a member of the political elite to cross paths, but he was the closest thing she had ever had to a friend since leaving her home at the age of four.

He'd found her voice soothing and enjoyed talking to her when he was her Guardian, enough so that he'd looked forward to their paths crossing.

She had few memories of her mother and grandparents and never crossed paths with anyone from the poor class.

He recalled one of their conversations from before their paths crossed, where he'd promised to marry her.

If she told him more, he might influence the paths she saw in a way that would make their slim chance of survival even slimmer.

He entered the mortal realm a year before without knowing the fates of any of the other Original Beings, before crossing paths with Jule, the Original Immortal, and Eden, the Original Human.

Her attitude is one of sturdy adherence to the old paths of evangelical doctrine and Presbyterian polity.

Bethlen was obliged to renounce his anti-Turkish projects, which he had hitherto cherished as the great aim and object of his life, and continue in the old beaten paths.

Lastly, to pass over unnecessary details, the markings of various kinds to be observed on the lobes of the livers of freshly-slaughtered animals, which are due mainly to the traces left by the subsidiary hepatic ducts and hepatic veins on the liver surface, were described as "holes," "paths," "clubs" and the like.

Gardiner (Cromwell, p. 315), that "what makes Cromwell's biography so interesting in his perpetual effort to walk in the paths of legality - an effort always frustrated by the necessities of the situation.

On the other hand, Kant's religion is of a type which requires a sort of deistic God, standing outside the world and constraining it into moral paths, or standing outside our moral struggles and rewarding our goodness.

There is a similar difficulty in tracing the paths by which the impulses are transmitted to the growing and curving regions.

The conduction of such stimulation to parts removed some distance from the sense organ suggests paths of transmission comparable to those which transmit nervous impulses in animals.

However that may be, it must be confessed even by Slavophils that he dragged his countrymen, more by force than by persuasion, from the paths of traditional routine and pushed them along with all his might on the broad road of progress in the modern sense of the term.

It was not a new religion that took root; older tendencies were diverted into new paths, the existing material was shaped to new ends.

Indeed, he never shook off the erroneous ideas of his time regarding the paths of projectiles, further than to see that no part of them could be a straight line.

After having been somewhat neglected for the greater attractions and wider field presented by organic chemistry, the study of the elements and their inorganic compounds is now' rapidly coming into favour; new investigators are continually entering the lists; the beaten paths are being retraversed and new ramifications pursued.

The partition method of treating symmetrical algebra is one which has been singularly successful in indicating new paths of advance in the theory of invariants; the important theorem of expressibility is, directly we exclude unity from the partitions, a theorem concerning the expressibility of covariants, and involves the theory of the reducible forms and of the syzygies.

After a few repetitions of the reversal, the process becomes strictly cyclic, the upward and downward curves always following with precision the paths indicated in the figure.

This was first suggested by Thomas Young, who showed that the rays producing the bows consisted of two systems, which, although emerging in parallel directions, traversed different paths in the drop. Destructive interference between these superposed rays will therefore occur, and, instead of a continuous maximum illumination in the direction of minimum deviation, we should expect to find alternations of brightness and darkness.

From the subtleties of rival systems it is a satisfaction to turn to two movements in the medicine of the 18th century which, though they did not extinguish the spirit of system-making, opened up paths of investigation by which the systems were ultimately superseded.

In the tropics, as well as in Europe, such methods and such researches threw new light upon the causes and paths of the terrible infections of these climates.

The discoveries of the separate paths of sensory and motor impulses in the spinal cord, and consequently of the laws of reflex action, by Charles Bell and Marshall Hall respectively, in their illumination of the phenomena of nervous function, may be compared with the discovery in the region of the vascular system of the circulation of the blood; for therein a key to large classes of normal and aberrant functions and a fertile principle of interpretation were obtained.

By similar methods nature, unassisted, betrays herself but too often; in many instances - probably originating primarily in the nervous tissues themselves - the course of disease is observed to follow certain paths with remarkable consistency, as for instance in diseases of particular tracts of the spinal cord.

It is needless to point out how such paths of disease, in their association with characteristic symptoms, have illuminated the clinical features of disease as well as the processes of normal function.

Not, however, all diseases of the nervous system conduct themselves on these definite paths, for some of them pay no attention to the geography of structure, but, as one may say, blunder indiscriminately among the several parts; others, again, pick out particular parts definitely enough, but not parts immediately continuous, or even contiguous.

Unhappily, however, the taint of the immemorial corruption of Byzantium had fallen upon him too, and the avenue to his favour and to political power lay too often through unspeakable paths.

They exhibit a great dissimilarity in paths, motions and colours.

More than a thousand observations in duplicate have been made of the paths of identical meteors seen from two stations many miles apart.

The centre upon which the observed paths converge is called the radiant point or, shortly, the radiant.

By these paths the germs of Asiatic plants were carried over to join the endemic flora of the country, and all found suitable homes amid greatly varying conditions of climate and physiography.

There is here little departure from the well-trodden paths of Europe.

There are several narrow paths and stairs that cut off the zigzags of the Sacred Way.

He too had come to the conviction that the Church had forsaken the old paths and entered on a way that must lead to destruction.