Path vs Folder - What's the difference?
path | folder |
A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
* (John Dryden)
* , chapter=1
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(paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
A metaphorical course.
A method or direction of proceeding.
* Bible, Psalms xxv. 10
* Gray
(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 from the unit interval to a topological space .
To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
* Drayton
An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.
A machine or person who folds things.
As nouns the difference between path and folder
is that path is a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians while folder is .As a verb path
is to make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).path
English
(wikipedia path)Noun
(en noun)- The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.
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.}}
- 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.
- All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.
- The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Synonyms
* (1): track, trail; see alsoDerived terms
* bridle path * cross paths * cycle path * footpath * path of least resistance * pathwayVerb
(en verb)- pathing young Henry's unadvised ways
References
* Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic wordsfolder
English
(wikipedia folder)Noun
(en noun)- I keep all my schoolwork in a yellow folder .
- My essays are in the folder named "Essays"