route
UK /ɹuːt/ · US /ɹut/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms routes routeing routing routed
- noun A course or way which is traveled or passed. “The route was used so much that it formed a rut.”
- noun 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.”
- noun A road or path; often specifically a highway. “Follow Route 49 out of town.”
- noun (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- noun (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- noun (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
- noun (horse racing) A race longer than one mile.
- noun (rail transport) 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.
- verb (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course. “All incoming mail was routed through a single office.”
- verb (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
- verb (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
- proper noun A surname from French.
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Etymology
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. Unrelated to road.
Borrowed from French Route, or a variant spelling of Routt.
Webster’s 1913
- 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.
Etymology [OE. & F. route, OF. rote, fr. L. rupta (sc. via), fr. ruptus, p.p. of rumpere to break; hence, literally, a broken or beaten way or path. See Rout, and cf. Rut a track.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “route”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details