Route vs. Path
Routenoun
A course or way which is traveled or passed.
Routenoun
A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
Routenoun
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
Routenoun
(figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
Routenoun
(historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
Routeverb
(transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
Routeverb
(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
Routeverb
To send (information) through a router.
Routenoun
The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.
Routenoun
an established line of travel or access
Routenoun
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
Routeverb
send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
Routeverb
send via a specific route
Routeverb
divert in a specified direction;
Pathnoun
A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
Pathnoun
A course taken.
Pathnoun
(paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
Pathnoun
A metaphorical course.
Pathnoun
A method or direction of proceeding.
Pathnoun
(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
Pathnoun
(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 and the last vertex are the same).
Pathnoun
(topology) A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
Pathnoun
Pathology.
Pathverb
(transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
Pathnoun
A trodden way; a footway.
Pathnoun
A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.
Pathverb
To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).
Pathverb
To walk or go.
Pathnoun
a course of conduct;
Pathnoun
a way especially designed for a particular use
Pathnoun
an established line of travel or access
Pathnoun
a line or route along which something travels or moves;
Pathnoun
a way or track laid down for walking or made by continual treading
Pathnoun
the course or direction in which a person or thing is moving
Pathnoun
a course of action or way of achieving a specified result
Pathnoun
a schedule available for allocation to an individual railway train over a given route.
Pathnoun
a definition of the order in which an operating system or program searches for a file or executable program.
Pathverb
(chiefly in computing and railway contexts) allocate a path.
