route
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ro͞ot
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: root
homophone: rute
ipa: /ɹuːt/
ipa: /ɹʉːt/
ipa: /ɹut/
ipa: /ɹʉt/
enpr: rout
rhymes: -aʊt
homophone: rout
ipa: /ɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹʌʊt/
other: /ɹaʊt/
other: /ɹuːt/
Forms: form: routes
Etymology: From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta [via] (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route. See routine. Further via Latin ruptus related with bankrupt.
Senses: examples: text: The route was used so much that it formed a rut.
text: You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles.
text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
ref: 2013 March 24, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83:
glosses: A course or way which is traveled or passed.
examples: text: We live near the bus route.
text: Here is a map of our delivery routes.
text: The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30.
glosses: A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
examples: text: Follow Route 49 out of town.
glosses: A road or path; often specifically a highway.
examples: text: If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route. […] Another route is to have a programmatic investment strategy […]. Rolex has taken this route […]
ref: 2010, Damien McLoughlin, David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 156–7:
glosses: One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
examples: text: The Chinese, ever since the first century of our era, have called the countries which we to-day name Kashgar and Sungaria, "routes." They referred them to their relative position on the two sides of the Tian-Shan, and called our Sungaria, Pe-lu, " northern route," and our Kashgar, Nan-lu, " southern route." The Turks gave other names to these countries; they called the northern route besh-balik, "the five cities," Pentapolis; the southern route was alti-shehr, " the six cities," Hexapolis.
ref: 1908, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World:
text: Under the director were eight education promotion officials (quanxue yuan), each installed in a “route”(lu,corresponding to the policing ward).
ref: 2005, Huaiyin Li, Village Governance In North China: Huailu County, 1875-1936, →ISBN:
text: In the year Zhiyuan 8, 5th month, on xinwei day (around June, 1271), owing to the fact that the chieftains of the eight polities in Dali had submitted recently and were adhered to [China], the thirty-seven tribal regions under Dali were divided into three routes.
ref: 2008, Foon Ming Liew, Volker Grabowsky, & ʻArunrat Wichīankhīeo, Lan Na in Chinese historiography, →ISBN:
text: Chinese administrative "cities" were often the location of more than one yamen, each with its own territorial jurisdiction. For instance, Yangszhou was not only the seat of the Pacificiation Commission (xuanweisi) of Huaidonglu, but also the capital of the Yanzhou Route (lu) subordinated to the Pacification Commission. Morevover, it was the administrative seat of Jiangdu District, which was subordinated to the Yangzhou Route.
ref: 2012, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Marco Polo Was in China, →ISBN:
glosses: One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A race longer than one mile.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: bridge route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: bus route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: donkey route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: down route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: downroute
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: en route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: on route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: escape route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: Euroroute
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: fixed route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: fly route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: go the route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: great circle route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: in route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: kangaroo route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: oil burner route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: panya route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: paper route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: poled route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: red route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route indicator
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: routeless
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route-march
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route march
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route mile
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route of administration
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route-one
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route one football
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route planner
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route redistribution
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route runner
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route setter
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route slip
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: route step
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: routon
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: scenic route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: star route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: subroute
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: trade route
sense: Terms derived from route (noun)
word: wine route