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–noun

1.	the scheduling of the route or itinerary of people, freight, etc.

2.	the arranging and scheduling of mail for delivery.

3.	delivery according to scheduled sequence.

[Origin: 1900–05; route + -ing¹

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route

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–noun

1.	a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?

2.	a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.

3.	a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to fix the route of: to route a tour.

5.	to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.

—Idiom

go the route, Informal.

a.	to see something through to completion: It was a tough assignment, but he went the route.

b.	Baseball. to pitch the complete game: The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME: way, course < OF < L rupta (via) broken (road), fem. ptp. of rumpere to break; cf. rout¹

]

—Synonyms 3. beat, circuit.

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n.

1. A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
2. An overwhelming defeat.
3. A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
4. People of the lowest class; rabble.
1. A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
2. People of the lowest class; rabble.
A public disturbance; a riot.
A company, as of knights or wolves, that are in movement. See Synonyms at flock¹.
A fashionable gathering.

tr.v. rout·ed, rout·ing, routs

To put to disorderly flight or retreat: "the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun" (Virginia Woolf).
To defeat overwhelmingly. See Synonyms at defeat.

[Middle English route, from Old French, troop, defeat, from Vulgar Latin *rupta, from feminine of Latin ruptus, past participle of rumpere, to break; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]

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rout² Audio Help   (rout) Pronunciation Key
v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routs

v.   intr.

To dig with the snout; root.
To poke around; rummage.

v. tr.

To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
To drive or force out as if by digging; eject: rout out an informant.
Archaic To dig up with the snout.

[Variant of root².]

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rout³ Audio Help (rout, rōōt) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. rout·ed, rout·ing, routs Chiefly British
To bellow. Used of cattle.

[Middle English routen, to roar, from Old Norse rauta.]

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route Audio Help (rōōt, rout) Pronunciation Key
n.

Abbr. Rt. or Rte.
1. A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another.
2. A highway.
A customary line of travel. See Synonyms at way.
A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.
Football A pass pattern.
A means of reaching a goal.

tr.v. rout·ed, rout·ing, routes

To send or forward by a specific route. See Synonyms at send¹.
To schedule the order of (a sequence of procedures).

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rupta (via), broken (road), feminine past participle of rumpere, to break; see rout¹.]

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routing tool
/row'ting/ Using a kind of rotating cutting tool called a router, pronounced /row't*/. In the USA a router, pronounced /row't*/, is also a network device that performs "routing". In the UK, the network device is pronounced /roo't*/ and what it does is spelled "routeing".
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