route
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
pets
physical-sciences
racing
rail-transport
railways
sciences
sports
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: routes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: routes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: routeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: routing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
sometimes
form: routed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: routed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A course or way which is traveled or passed.
pos: noun
examples: The route was used so much that it formed a rut.
You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles.
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.
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.
gloss: A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
pos: noun
examples: We live near the bus route.
Here is a map of our delivery routes.
The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30.
gloss: A road or path; often specifically a highway.
pos: noun
examples: Follow Route 49 out of town.
gloss: One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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 […]
gloss: One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 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.
Under the director were eight education promotion officials (quanxue yuan), each installed in a “route”(lu,corresponding to the policing ward).
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.
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.
gloss: A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
pos: noun
gloss: A race longer than one mile.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: To direct or divert along a particular course.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
gloss: to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
gloss: To send (information) through a router.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Google Glass has come under fire from privacy advocates because it can record video without subjects being aware of it, and that any video will be routed through Google's servers.
Related words: bridge
LAN
WAN
Derived words: bridge route
bus route
donkey route
down route
downroute
en route
on route
escape route
Euroroute
fixed route
fly route
Garden Route
go the route
great circle route
in route
kangaroo route
multiroute
oil burner route
panya route
paper route
poled route
preroute
red route
route indicator
routeless
routeman
route-march
route march
route mile
route of administration
route-one
route one football
route planner
route redistribution
route runner
route setter
route slip
route step
routeway
routon
scenic route
star route
subroute
traceroute
trade route
wine route
misroute
reroute
routability
routable
router
routine
rutter
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: курс
roman: kurs
lang: Bulgarian
word: маршру́т
roman: maršrút
lang: Czech
word: cesta
lang: Dutch
word: route
lang: Dutch
word: traject
lang: Finnish
word: reitti
lang: French
word: route
lang: Georgian
word: კურსი
roman: ḳursi
lang: German
word: Route
lang: German
word: Straße
lang: German
word: Weg
lang: German
word: Pfad
lang: Hindi
word: मार्ग
roman: mārg
lang: Hungarian
word: útvonal
lang: Hungarian
word: járat
lang: Indonesian
word: rute
lang: Ingrian
word: jooma
lang: Irish
word: slí
lang: Italian
word: via
lang: Italian
word: strada
lang: Korean
word: 길
roman: gil
lang: Malay
word: jajaran
lang: Malay
word: laluan
lang: Māori
word: ara
lang: Māori
word: ararere
lang: Portuguese
word: percurso
lang: Russian
word: маршру́т
roman: maršrút
lang: Russian
word: тра́сса
roman: trássa
lang: Sanskrit
word: पथ
roman: patha
lang: Sanskrit
word: मार्ग
roman: mārga
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: slighe
lang: Telugu
word: మార్గము
roman: mārgamu
lang: Thai
word: ทาง
roman: taang
lang: Thai
word: ถนน
roman: tà-nǒn
lang: Ukrainian
word: маршру́т
roman: maršrút
lang: Ukrainian
word: тра́са
roman: trása
lang: Vietnamese
word: tuyến đường