route

• (RP)
  • IPA^(key): /ɹuːt/

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  • Rhymes: -uːt
• (GA)
  • IPA^(key): /ɹuːt/, /ɹaʊt/

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  • Rhymes: -uːt, Rhymes: -aʊt
• (AusE)
  • IPA^(key): /ɹʉːt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt
• (Canada)
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹut/, /ɹʌʊt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt, Rhymes: -aʊt
• Homophone: root (/ɹuːt/); rout (/ɹaʊt/)

From Middle English route, borrowed from Old French route, rote (“road, way, path”) (compare modern French route), from Latin rupta (via).[1] As a Chinese administrative division, a semantic loan from Chinese 路 (lù).

route (plural routes)

1. 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.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   • 2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83:

     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.

2. 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.

3. A road or path; often specifically a highway.

   Follow Route 49 out of town.

4. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
   • 2010, Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 156-7:

     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 […]

5. (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
   • 1908, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World:

     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.

   • 2005, Huaiyin Li, Village Governance In North China: Huailu County, 1875-1936, →ISBN:

     Under the director were eight education promotion officials (quanxue yuan), each installed in a “route”(lu,corresponding to the policing ward).

   • 2008, Foon Ming Liew, ‎Volker Grabowsky, & ‎ʻArunrat Wichīankhīeo, Lan Na in Chinese historiography, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2012, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Marco Polo Was in China, →ISBN:

     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 Commision. Morevover, it was the administrative seat of Jiangdu District, which was subordinated to the Yangzhou Route.

6. (Computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.

• (Chinese administrative division): lu, circuit, province

route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routing or (UK) routeing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.

   All incoming mail was routed through a single office.

2. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
3. (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
   • 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:

     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.

• reroute
• router

• (Internet) bridge
• (Internet) LAN
• (Internet) WAN

route

1. Eye dialect spelling of root.

• route in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• route in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Toure, outer, outre, outré, rouet, utero-

Borrowed from Middle French route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta (via).

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.tə/

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• Hyphenation: rou‧te
• Rhymes: -utə

route f (plural routes or routen, diminutive routetje n)

1. route, course, way (particular pathway or direction one travels)
2. road, route

• fietsroute
• routebeschrijving
• route-informatie
• routekaart
• routeplanner
• routenavigatie
• vaarroute
• wandelroute

From Middle French route, from Old French route, rote, from Latin rupta via.

• IPA^(key): /ʁut/

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• Rhymes: -ut

route f (plural routes)

1. road, (sometimes route like "route 66")
2. route, way, path

• autoroute
• dérouter
• en route
• faire fausse route
• mettre en route
• router
  • routage
  • routeur
• routier
• tenir la route

• “route” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• outre, outré, troue, troué

Borrowed from Middle French, Old French route, rote.

route (plural routes)

1. route

From Old French route, from Latin rupta (via).

route f (plural routes)

1. (Jersey) road
2. (Jersey, nautical, of a watercraft) course

• rote
• route

From Latin rupta (via).

route f (oblique plural routes, nominative singular route, nominative plural routes)

1. route (course or way which is traveled or passed)

• chemin
• curs
• voie