route
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: There's a ship from our company on the North Atlantic route.
a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of their work or duty: a newspaper route;a mail carrier's route.
to set the path of: to route a tour.
to send or forward by a particular course or road: It's the post office's job to route mail to its proper destination.
Idioms about route
go the route, Informal.
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.
Origin of route
1Other words for route
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.
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How to use route in a sentence
Those industries would later build several dams along the route to provide hydroelectric power.
Well, the company going through the direct route is likely to pay fewer fees as they are hiring bankers as advisors rather than underwriters.
That route relies on a protein-cutting enzyme called TMPRSS2 to snip the knobby-looking spike protein studding the virus’s surface.
New treatments aim to treat COVID-19 early, before it gets serious | Tina Hesman Saey | August 24, 2020 | Science NewsVisitors can walk or ride the Towpath Trail to follow the historic route of the Ohio & Erie Canal.
Cleveland – The Rock and Roll Capital of the World | LGBTQ-Editor | August 21, 2020 | No Straight NewsThose that didn’t take the layoffs route cut salaries for their employees.
India’s job market is recovering from the Covid-19 shock—but very slowly | Manavi Kapur | August 13, 2020 | Quartz
Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 | Clive Irving | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAirAsia has now been grounded on this route by the Indonesians.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 | Clive Irving | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTOtis, who tells me he was called “Saladin” on the inside, has taken an almost tragically circuitous route in getting here.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside | Justin Rohrlich | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter a hit, they would adjust the search to the most likely route from there.
I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyAlice Arden, you little dream of the man and the route by which, possibly, deliverance is speeding to you.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuUpon our return from this river Saint John, our route turned towards the country of the Armouchiquoys.
Mais, dpartans un peu de pense d'avec eux, comme nous fismes lors de presence, continuons nostre route et voyage.
This waterway was recently discovered, and by it there is a better route to Terrenate than was formerly followed.
British Dictionary definitions for route
/ (ruːt) /
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
to plan the route of; send by a particular route
Origin of route
1usage For route
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