basepath

noun

Etymology

From base + path.

  1. derived from *póntoh₁s
  2. derived from *pántaHs
  3. derived from *pántaHh
  4. inherited from *paþaz
  5. inherited from *paþ
  6. inherited from pæþ
  7. inherited from path
  8. compounded as basepath — “base + path

Definitions

  1. The grassless ways around the baseball diamond on which runners advance.

    • Jackson broke up a potential double play in the 1978 World Series when he froze on the basepaths and turned his hip into a throw.
  2. The path between two adjacent bases, such as between the first and the second base.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for basepath. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA