pathway
part of speech
noun (a pathway, pathways)
meaning for a pupil
1) A path or track that people walk along, often through a garden, park or field. tree →
2) A way or route to reach a goal, such as a career or a level at school. tree →
3) (science) A route that something follows, like nerve pathways in the brain or the pathway food takes through the body. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: In Proverbs it means the way of life. The tradition reads the "pathway of righteousness" as a road that leads to life. In the primary lessons: In stories pathways wind through woods and lead to secret places; in safety lessons children are told to stay on the pathway near cliffs or water. In maths a pathway can be a route on a grid to be counted or measured. In science lessons digestion or a nerve signal follows a pathway. In school talk «a learning pathway» is a planned way through subjects. Phrases: «a pathway to», «stay on the pathway», «garden pathway», «cycle pathway».
examples
- In the way of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death. (Writings PRO.12.28, JPS 1917) tree →
- A stone pathway led to the front door. tree →
- Stay on the pathway near the cliff edge. tree →
- The pathway around the lake is 3 km long. tree →
- Education is a pathway to a good job. tree →
- Food takes a long pathway through the body. tree →
- We cleared the snow off the pathway. tree →
- The pathway was lit by little lamps. tree →
- How many different pathways go from A to B on the grid? tree →
- You will remember there was no road—not even a pathway—between the castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City. tree →
note
Countable: a pathway, two pathways. Means almost the same as «path»; «pathway» sounds a little more formal or planned. In route problems, add the lengths of each part of the pathway to find the total distance.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pathway» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.