route
[ root, rout ]
/ rut, raʊt /
noun
a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.
a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.
verb (used with object), rout·ed, rout·ing.
to fix the route of: to route a tour.
to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.
Idioms for route
- to see something through to completion: It was a tough assignment, but he went the route.
- Baseball. to pitch the complete game: The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route.
go the route, Informal.
Origin of route
1175–1225; Middle English: way, course < Old French < Latin
rupta (
via) broken (road), feminine past participle of
rumpere to break; cf.
rout1
OTHER WORDS FROM route
mis·route, verb (used with object), mis·rout·ed, mis·rout·ing. pre·route, verb (used with object), pre·rout·ed, pre·rout·ing. re·route, verb, re·rout·ed, re·rout·ing.Words nearby route
roussillon,
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route 128,
route march,
route one,
route survey,
routeman
Example sentences from the Web for route
British Dictionary definitions for route
route
/ (ruːt) /
noun
the choice of roads taken to get to a place
a regular journey travelled
(capital) US
a main road between cities
Route 66
mountaineering
the direction or course taken by a climb
med
the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection
oral route
verb routes, routing, routeing or routed (tr)
to plan the route of; send by a particular route
Word Origin for route
C13: from Old French
rute, from Vulgar Latin
rupta via (unattested), literally: a broken (established) way, from Latin
ruptus broken, from
rumpere to break, burst
usage for route
When forming the present participle or verbal noun from the verb
to route it is preferable to retain the
e in order to distinguish the word from
routing, the present participle or verbal noun from
rout
1, to defeat or
rout
2, to dig, rummage:
the routeing of buses from the city centre to the suburbs . The spelling
routing in this sense is, however, sometimes encountered, esp in American English