pathway

[ path-wey, pahth- ]

noun

1. a path, course, route, or way. ways.
2. Biochemistry. a sequence of reactions, usually controlled and catalyzed by enzymes, by which one organic substance is converted to another.

pathway

/ ˈpɑːθˌweɪ /

noun

1. See path
   another word for path path
2. a route to or way of access to; way of reaching or achieving something
3. courses taken by a student to gain entry to a higher course or towards a final qualification
4. biochem a chain of reactions associated with a particular metabolic process

pathway

/ păth′wā′ /

1. A chain of nerve fibers along which impulses normally travel.
2. A sequence of enzymatic or other reactions by which one biological material is converted to another.

Other Words From

• pathwayed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pathway¹

First recorded in 1530–40; path + way ¹

Example Sentences

This acupoint, dubbed ST36, seemed to trigger a different nerve pathway than the abdominal stimulation—the famous vagus nerve, known for its role in dampening inflammation and pain.

From Singularity Hub 

Exchanging and blending with anything and everything, looking for new and better pathways through the vast landscape of Darwinian selection.

From Nautilus

“There isn’t a great pathway forward that can take up the scale to reduce carbon emissions from gas,” Havey said.

From Voice of San Diego

Those pathways also inspired massive scientific and popular interest in metformin, hormones, intermittent fasting, and even the ketogenic diet.

From Singularity Hub 

Sometimes, they shove us, shaping the possibilities of existence and our individual pathways through life.

From Nautilus

Will had mistakenly connected the pathway of infection in a hospital room with someone coughing or sneezing circulating in public.

From The Daily Beast

Every year 14,000 vessels serve 1,7000 ports in 160 countries as they make their way through this Atlantic-to-Pacific pathway.

From The Daily Beast

The pathway that RB is involved in is altered in 70 percent of human cancers—especially cancers in the brain.

From The Daily Beast

The pathway to a powerful judgeship is more circuitous than to a State House or Congress.

From The Daily Beast

The more you do something, the more available that pathway is, so you may be able to use your brain resources more effectively.

From The Daily Beast

Only the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.

From Project Gutenberg

The fresh imprint of a tiger's paw upon the pathway gives the same sort of feel to the Indian herdsman.

From Project Gutenberg

Crossing the heath, her pathway lay near the spot where she had been found, clinging to the bosom of her dead mother.

From Project Gutenberg

The pathway led through a door in the great gateway, over which still hangs suspended the iron port-cullis.

From Project Gutenberg

Heaven's pathway stands unobstructed, which will lead us into a Paradise of bliss.

From Project Gutenberg

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