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Entrance vs Path - What's the difference?

entrance | path |

In lang=en terms the difference between entrance and path

is that entrance is to put into a trance while path is to make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

As nouns the difference between entrance and path

is that entrance is (countable) the action of entering, or going in while path is a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.

As verbs the difference between entrance and path

is that entrance is to delight and fill with wonder while path is to make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

entrance

English

Alternative forms

* entraunce

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

  • (countable) The action of entering, or going in.
    • Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.
  • The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
    • the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office
  • (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
    Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.
  • (uncountable) The right to go in.
    • You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.
    to give entrance to friends
  • The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
    • a difficult entrance into business
  • * Shakespeare
    • Beware of entrance to a quarrel.
  • * Halliwell
    • St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
  • The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
    • His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
  • (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
  • (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
    • (Totten)
    Synonyms
    * ingang
    Antonyms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From

    Verb

    (entranc)
  • To delight and fill with wonder.
    • The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons.
  • * 1996 —
    • See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance ...
  • To put into a trance.

    • path

    English

    (wikipedia path)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • A course taken.
  • * 1900 , , , Chapter I,
    • Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.
  • (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  • A metaphorical course.
  • A method or direction of proceeding.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxv. 10
    • All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.
  • * Gray
    • The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
  • (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
  • (graph theory) A sequence of vertices]] from one vertex to another using the arcs ([[edge, 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).
  • (topology) A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.

    • Synonyms

    * (1): track, trail; see also

    Derived terms

    * bridle path * cross paths * cycle path * footpath * path of least resistance * pathway

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
  • * Drayton
    • pathing young Henry's unadvised ways

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]

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