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Path vs Ambulatory - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between path and ambulatory

is that path is a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians while ambulatory is the round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.

As a verb path

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

As an adjective ambulatory is

of, relating to, or adapted to walking.

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]

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words

    ambulatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
    • ambulatory exercise
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
  • (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
    • an ambulatory patient
  • (medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
    • an ambulatory electrocardiogram
    ambulatory medical care
  • Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
    • an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • The priesthood before was very ambulatory , and dispersed into all families.
  • (legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
    • The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

    Noun

    (ambulatories)
  • The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.