What is the difference between path and trail?
path | trail |
A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
* (John Dryden)
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, title= A course taken.
* 1900 , , , Chapter I,
(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
(label) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
(label) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(label) To leave (a trail of).
(label) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
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, title= (label) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
(label) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
* (1816-1855)
The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
Trail is a synonym of path.
In transitive terms the difference between path and trail
is that path is to make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone) while trail is to show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.As a proper noun Trail is
a city in British Columbia.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 wordstrail
English
Verb
(en verb)- "I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.
SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0, passage=Neil Lennon and his players have, in almost no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.}}
- (Longfellow)
- I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.