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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pathway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biochemical
▪ To add to the confusion, we are not even certain about the biochemical pathway of vitamin C synthesis in plants.
▪ It is most directly seen in the case of biochemical pathways.
▪ Nowadays Prozac is prescribed by the bushel, even though its biochemical pathways are still a mystery.
▪ Proteins which like to stick together are thus likely to belong to the same biochemical pathway.
different
▪ The two stimuli thus operate in different pathways within the same neuron.
▪ Pharmacological studies also indicate that these two forms of complementary therapy act through different pathways.
▪ There is now wide access to different career pathways and the opportunities to gain skills and expertise throughout their careers.
▪ There are many different types of neurotransmitter, and thus of synapse; different pathways in the brain need their different properties.
metabolic
▪ Many basic metabolic pathways show striking similarities throughout the bacterial, plant and animal kingdoms.
new
▪ But it will take years to show that drugs that target the new pathway will work for people.
▪ Again, these changes almost always occur when humans inadvertently pave new pathways for the microbial world.
▪ An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987.
▪ Harvard's new pathway got through its pilot years relying on the motivated staff and fellows.
▪ The greatest change in the curriculum with courses similar to the new pathway is seen in the preclinical faculty.
▪ That feeling of uncertainty did not last long, I found a new pathway and the bewilderment soon went.
▪ It is true that the new pathway was oversubscribed in both pilot years.
other
▪ Imagine the myriads of such infrared and other pathways and signals that the various insect species must be utilizing.
signalling
▪ In addition, there are also indications that this signalling pathway can induce cells to become tumorigenic.
▪ FIG. 5 Summary of signalling pathways operating during G 1.
▪ Cells generate InsP 3 through two major signalling pathways.
▪ What is not apparent from Fig. 1 is the rich diversity of the individual components within these signalling pathways.
■ VERB
follow
▪ Impulses are generated as a result of neural dysfunction and do not follow classic pain pathways.
▪ Just follow the pathway in the dust, said the voice.
▪ I followed a long harbour-wall pathway, then took a gate into a park.
▪ Thus the removal of H 2 in the large gut may follow a number of pathways.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We know about the pathways through which odors are detected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He heard many voices as people passed on the pathway from the bridge to the ramp.
▪ In addition, there are also indications that this signalling pathway can induce cells to become tumorigenic.
▪ Parental reactions are turbulent, and the usual pathways for the development of close parent-infant bonds are disrupted.
▪ Police officers and big guys in suits wearing earplugs, looking tense, had cordoned off a temporary pathway.
▪ Rural communities complained that they lacked the resources to offer career pathways in multiple fields.
▪ The pathway narrows as it moves toward the Stream Garden.
▪ To add to the confusion, we are not even certain about the biochemical pathway of vitamin C synthesis in plants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pathway

Pathway \Path"way\, n. A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.
--Shak.

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death.
--Prov. xii. 28.

We tread the pathway arm in arm.
--Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pathway

1530s, from path + way (n.). An etymological tautology.

Wiktionary
pathway

n. 1 A footpath or other path or track. 2 (context biochemistry English) A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.

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WordNet
pathway

  1. n. a bundle of mylenated nerve fibers following a path through the brain [syn: nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract]

  2. a trodden path [syn: footpath]

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Wikipedia
Pathway (album)

Pathway is the third studio album by The Flaming Stars. As the title suggests, this was recorded at Pathway Studios, in common with some of the early Stiff Records recordings.

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Usage examples of "pathway".

The brain has now reached its maximum size and weight, any further changes being due to the formation of associative pathways along nerve centres.

He lay panting a moment, then started to crawl up the pathway, unwilling to trust his balky ankle on this rocky footing.

The pathway that has led from the demonstration of the immunological nature of the homograft reaction and its universality to the development of relatively effective but by no means completely satisfactory means of overcoming it for therapeutic purposes is an interesting one that can only be touched upon very briefly.

As her soft, slim form melded to his, he recalled some saying about the pathway to hell being paved with good intentions.

Among them I used to minish myself to the size of an ant and become a pioneer hewing out a pathway through virgin thickets.

He drew the pathways of the light rays from the anus to the eyeballs and back, splitting it into colorful rainbows and sophisticated spectra which he elaborated with multivariate complex equations and graphs.

The waitingmaids, who have escorted me to the door, fall on all fours as a final salute, and remain prostrate on the threshold as long as I am still in sight down the dark pathway, where the rain trickles off the great overarching bracken upon my head.

When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses, at the rate of 10-100 per second for up to 10 seconds, they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus, persisting for up to ten hours.

She envisioned great spaceships crossing the universe without moving, guided by prescient navigators who could see safe pathways through space.

The time was still 08:02, but in one of those flashes of understanding when whole new synaptic pathways open up and ones brain undergoes a crash and rapid reboot, Pandora twigged.

Our little girl graduated the salutatorian of the Christian Pathways Academy.

As planned, his shishi friends were gathered for the ambush near the broken main gate that fronted the main pathway to the castle gate.

Smoke was curling out of the homestead, and as they stared in horror, they saw tiny dark human figures running down the pathway under the spathodea trees, carrying torches of dry, grass.

Illinois upon the pathway to statehood was what is so well known in our political history as the Ordinance of 1787.

Yagharek picked his bound feet up high, stumbling a little, and walked unerringly towards the pathway from where they had come.