aisle vs path

aisle

noun
  • Seat in public transport, such as a plane, train or bus, that's beside the aisle. 

  • Any path through an otherwise obstructed space. 

  • A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. 

  • A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. 

  • The path of a wedding procession in a church or other venue; (by extension, metonymically) marriage. 

  • An idiomatic divide between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, who are said to be on two sides of the aisle. 

  • A clear path through rows of seating. 

path

noun
  • A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains. 

  • Pathology. 

  • A method or direction of proceeding. 

  • 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). 

  • A metaphorical course or route; progress. 

  • A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians. 

  • A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X. 

  • A course taken. 

  • A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder). 

  • To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone). 

How often have the words aisle and path occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )