Street vs. Pathway

Street vs. Pathway — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Street and Pathway

Streetnoun

A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

Walk down the street.

Pathwaynoun

A footpath or other path or track.

Streetnoun

A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

Pathwaynoun

(biochemistry) A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.

Streetnoun

The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

Pathwaynoun

(figurative) A course of action.

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Streetnoun

The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.

Pathwaynoun

a bundle of mylenated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

Streetnoun

(slang) Street talk or slang.

Pathwaynoun

a trodden path

Streetnoun

(figuratively) A great distance.

He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

Streetnoun

(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

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Streetnoun

Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug

I got some pot cheap on the street.

Streetnoun

(attributive) Living in the streets.

Street cat.Street urchin.

Streetnoun

(urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

Streetadjective

(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

Streetverb

To build or equip with streets.

Streetverb

To eject; to throw onto the streets.

Streetverb

To heavily defeat.

Streetverb

To go on sale.

Streetverb

To proselytize in public.

Streetnoun

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings;

they walked the streets of the small townhe lives on Nassau Street

Streetnoun

the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel;

be careful crossing the street

Streetnoun

the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction;

she tried to keep her children off the street

Streetnoun

a situation offering opportunities;

he worked both sides of the streetcooperation is a two-way street

Streetnoun

people living or working on the same street;

the whole street protested the absence of street lights