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route
[ root, rout ]
noun
- a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
's the shortest route to Boston?
- a customary or regular line of passage or travel:
There's a ship from our company on the North Atlantic route.
- a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of their work or duty:
a newspaper route;
a mail carrier's route.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used with object)
- to set the path of:
to route a tour.
- to send or forward by a particular course or road:
It's the post office's job to route mail to its proper destination.
route
/ ː /
noun
- the choice of roads taken to get to a place
- a regular journey travelled
- capital a main road between cities
Route 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 injection
oral route
verb
- to plan the route of; send by a particular route
Usage
Other Word Forms
- ·dzܳٱ verb (used with object) misrouted misrouting
- ·dzܳٱ verb (used with object) prerouted prerouting
- ·dzܳٱ verb rerouted rerouting
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of route1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
Example Sentences
The Clippers found another gear, fielding a stingy defense and a balanced scoring attack that helped them build a 31-point lead en route to a convincing 117-83 win over the Nuggets on Thursday night.
And that opened up another legal route for the authorities: the charge of conspiracy to intentionally cause public nuisance.
The evacuation plan unveiled on Wednesday identifies 150 routes out of Vilnius and assigns neighbourhoods with specific evacuation points, Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reported.
Mr O'Dwyer had researched alternative routes, but all were "dismissively rejected by you", the judge said.
Neither Millie nor her mum wish to take this route saying it is "morally wrong" and "compounds the problem".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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