{
  "id": "street.path",
  "term": "street",
  "sense": "path",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "Lexical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place where a surface arrangement can be used for motion of things",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "location.spatial",
      "surface.exterior",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "motion.movement",
      "space.extent",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "The place with a surface arrangement can be used for motion of things",
    "novel_properties": [
      "usable path for movement",
      "structured surface in space",
      "directed transit potential"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Brooklyn Bridge carried vehicles and pedestrians daily from 1883 until its 2023 structural retrofit.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ant trails form persistent paths between food sources and nests through repeated use by worker ants.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Silk Road linked Xi’an to Constantinople, enabling trade caravans to move goods across Eurasia for centuries.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "road.transport"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "street",
    "streets"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete — omitted foundational concepts space.extent and use.application which are required for 'can be used for motion'. Added missing components; definition retained as-i"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-street.path"
}