route
[root, rout]
- 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.
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- to fix the route of: to route a tour.
- to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.
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- 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.
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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
Synonyms
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Related Words
program, direction, way, course, track, passage, trail, journey, itinerary, line, avenue, road, transmit, pike, digression, run, meandering, rambling, plot, beatExamples from the Web for route
Contemporary Examples
AirAsia has now been grounded on this route by the Indonesians.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501Clive Irving
January 6, 2015
And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
After a hit, they would adjust the search to the most likely route from there.
The weather on the route of AirAsia Flight 8501 was not unusual for the region and the season.
I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].
Historical Examples
Along the route as, well as at the station, the party was cheered by a large crowd.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
Vast crowds lined the route, afoot and in every kind of vehicle.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
The view from the summit, made up for the deviation from my route.
Our route brought us along by the waterside, and we travelled hard all that night.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
The route she was to follow was marked by a line of buoys and flags.
Heroes of the TelegraphJ. Munro
route
- the choice of roads taken to get to a place
- a regular journey travelled
- (capital) US a main road between citiesRoute 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 injectionoral route
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- to plan the route of; send by a particular route
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Word Origin
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
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
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Word Origin and History for route
n.
early 13c., from Old French rute "road, way, path" (12c.), from Latin rupta (via) "(a road) opened by force," from rupta, fem. past participle of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). Sense of "fixed or regular course for carrying things" (cf. mail route) is 1792, an extension of the meaning "customary path of animals" (early 15c.).
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v.
1890, from route (n.). Related: Routed; routing.
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