route
A course or way which is traveled or passed.
Noun
- A course or way which is traveled or passed.
- 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...
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
- 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.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway.
- Follow Route 49 out of town.
- One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- 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...
- One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- 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...
- Under the director were eight education promotion officials (quanxue yuan), each installed in a “route”(lu,corresponding to the policing ward). - 2005, Huaiyin Li, Village Governance In North China: Huailu County,...
- 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...
- A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
- A race longer than one mile.
- 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.
Origin
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.
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Verb Entry 2
- To direct or divert along a particular course.
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
- to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
- To send (information) through a router.
- 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. - 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on...
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- Eye dialect spelling of root.