Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pathway
IPA transcription: [p'æθw,eɪ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: nerve_pathway, tract, nerve_tract, pathway
    Meaning: a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
  • Synonyms: pathway, footpath
    Meaning: a trodden path
Usage examples
  • The twisting of the pathway could be distinguished vaguely in the relief of the cliff.
  • He set down his basket of tools, picked up the scrap of offal, beat a pathway for himself with his stick, and got over the hedge.
  • He went away from the pitiless sea through an opening between low conical hills, covered with dark scrub, over a pathway composed of drift sand and broken shells.
  • The pathway of this creek, full of knots and angles, almost perpendicular, and better adapted for goats than men, terminated on the platform where the plank was placed.
  • He fought them with flailing fists, he clove a pathway through them, until he found himself in a great shadowy space that he recognized as the central assembly of the city.
  • Down the steep winding pathway they rode, and out into the great wide world beyond, upon which Otto and brother John had gazed so often from the wooden belfry of the White Cross on the hill.
  • And that is one reason why the Little Contemptibles grew and grew until they became a mighty barrier stretching across the pathway of the invader from sea to sea, and saying with their Allies:
  • The bottom of the "lever-stick" is tied to the trigger, and the top of it to a long, fine, dark-coloured string, which is passed through the empty ramrod tubes, and is fixed to a tree on the other side of the pathway.
  • Setting a gun as a spring-gun.--General Remarks.--The string that goes across the pathway should be dark coloured, and so fine that, if the beast struggles against it, it should break rather than cause injury to the gun.