pathとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /pɑːθ/
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːθ]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [pʰäːθ], [pʰɐːθ]
• IPA^(key): /pæθ/
  • (米国用法, Canada) IPA^(key): [pʰæθ], [pʰɛəθ], [pʰeəθ]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [pʰaθ], [pʰæθ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːθ, -æθ

名詞

path (複数形 paths)

1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
   • a. 1701, John Dryden, “The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus. From the 18th Idyllium of Theocritus.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003, page 412:

     Yet ere to to-morrow's ſun ſhall ſhew his head, / The dewy paths of meadows we will tread, / For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

2. A course taken.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, 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.

   the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm

3. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
4. A metaphorical course.
5. A method or direction of proceeding.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 25:10:

     All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.

   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

6. (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.

   Use the network path \\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need.

7. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first かつ the last vertex are the same).
8. (topology) A continuous map ${\displaystyle f}$ from the unit interval ${\displaystyle I=[0,1]}$ to a topological space ${\displaystyle X}$.
9. (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
   • 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival: December 2019 changes”, in Modern Railways, page 78:

     ... while the planned hourly fast 'Connect' service from Middlesbrough to Newcastle has been postponed indefinitely due to problems in finding paths for it on the East Coast main line.

   • 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 65:

     Echoing McNaughton's comments in 2009, it adds: "The WCML has exhausted its available train paths and no extra services could be run without further significant investment to enhance current infrastructure or build a new line.

同意語

• (1): track, trail; see also Thesaurus:way

上位語

派生語

接尾辞

-path

1. Used to form nouns indicating someone with a particular disorder

   sociopath

2. Used to form nouns indicating someone with a particular capability, as a type of remedial treatment

   osteopath

派生語

• Category:English words suffixed with -path

関連する語

• -pathic
• -pathy

アナグラム

• Ptah, phat

派生語