Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another.
- noun A highway.
- noun A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.
- noun A means of reaching a goal.
- noun Football A pass pattern.
- transitive verb To send or forward by a specific route. synonym: send.
- transitive verb To schedule the order of (a sequence of procedures).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
rout , rout, rout, rout. - noun An order for a route march.
- noun A way; road; path; space for passage.
- noun A way or course of transit; a line of travel, passage, or progression; the course passed or to be passed over in reaching a destination, or (by extension) an object or a purpose; as a legal or engineering term, the horizontal direction along and near the surface of the earth of a way or course, as a road, a railway, or a canal, occupied or to be occupied for travel.
- To determine the route or line of transportation or travel of (goods, immigrants, etc.).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
course orway which is traveled or passed. - noun A regular
itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as fordelivery or passenger transportation. - noun A
road orpath ; often specifically ahighway . - noun this sense?) (
figuratively ) One of multiplemethods orapproaches to doing something. - verb To direct or divert along a particular course.
- verb Internet to connect two
local area networks , thereby forming aninternet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb divert in a specified direction
- noun an established line of travel or access
- verb send via a specific route
- noun an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
- verb send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our route to this place was equally grand and experimental; grand, as to the width of the road, and beauty of the surrounding country -- but experimental, inasmuch as a part of the _route royale_ had been broken up, and rendered wholly impassable for carriages of any weight.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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I proposed to travel with an English friend named Pottinger to Vienna, and thence by some adventurous route or other through Germany to Paris; which was a great deal more to undertake in those days than it now is, entailing several hundred per cent. more pain and sorrow, fasting, want of sleep and washing, than any man would encounter in these days in going round the world and achieving _la grande route_; or the common European tour, to boot.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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I can get help from distribution companies, but certainly, I won't be going the label route.
Mike Ragogna: Universal Pulses & Floating Cities: Chatting with 311's Nick Hexum and Thomas Dolby Mike Ragogna 2011
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I can get help from distribution companies, but certainly, I won't be going the label route.
Mike Ragogna: Universal Pulses & Floating Cities: Chatting with 311's Nick Hexum and Thomas Dolby Mike Ragogna 2011
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Po, after KFP 1, took the Shaolin route from the Shaw Brothers, decided to go on one of those epic "mountain journeys" and ran into Uwe Boll dressed in Spartan gear weeping over his latest epic failure of video game to movie disasters … Po, feeling a sense passion, not to mention outrage at a possiblely gay film maker dressed in "manly" attire … decapitates Uwe and saves the gear …
More Sequels: The Host, Kung Fu Panda, 300, Hellboy and More! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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In this case, the band decided to ignore the label route and go on its own -- and while the sales numbers don't seem all that exciting based on traditional metrics, in terms of the metric that counts the most to the band (money made), it's already made much more than its last record label album.
Techdirt 2009
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In this case, the band decided to ignore the label route and go on its own -- and while the sales numbers don't seem all that exciting based on traditional metrics, in terms of the metric that counts the most to the band (money made), it's already made much more than its last record label album.
Techdirt 2009
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Gas costs keep rising and the traffic congestion along the route is a major headache for drivers.
John Morgan: Trivedi Hits Gerlach On Commuter Rail Line Failure John Morgan 2010
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Another route is a Ruger Red Lable if you want to go the O/U route.
I am a college student and I would like to start trap shooting this summer. 2009
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Another route is a Ruger Red Lable if you want to go the O/U route.
I am a college student and I would like to start trap shooting this summer. 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word route
See this map for American pronunciation.
April 11, 2008
barnesrw commented on the word route
This is the first word I searched for after becoming a new member of wordnik. (My uncle 15 generations removed was Noah Webster). I wanted to see how wordnik pronounced "route". I was delighted to see that you only pronounce it the correct way, namely rut (root), even though many people, including those in the media, mispronounce it "rout".
Perhaps you could add "common mispronunciations" to wordnik as a gentle nudge to improving our language skills.
I enjoyed learning about wordnik through the article on Erin McKean's efforts in the March 16 issue of The Christian Science Monitor.
Thanks, and happy wording!
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April 2, 2009