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path | gangway |

As nouns the difference between path and gangway

is that path is a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians while gangway is a passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings.

As a verb path

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

As an interjection gangway is

make way! Clear a path.

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]

    gangway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings.
  • An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.
  • A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks.
  • (rare, obsolete, outside, dialects) A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
  • (British) An aisle.
  • (nautical) A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck.
  • (nautical) A passage through the side of a ship or though a railing through which the ship may be boarded.
  • (agricultural) An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
  • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (to a crowd) Make way]]! [[clear, Clear a path!
  • * 1934 , , p 157:
  • And he pushed his way through the crowd crying, "Gangway', ' gangway !" and dragging Jane and Michael after him.