banquette vs path

banquette

noun
  • A sidewalk. 

  • An upholstered bench, e.g., along a wall of a restaurant or lounge area. 

  • A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers. 

  • A bench built into a wall, especially (military) one built into a wall of a defensive trench, used for sitting and for shooting at attackers. 

path

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

  • 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 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). 

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