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rut1

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–noun

1.	a furrow or track in the ground, esp. one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.

2.	any furrow, groove, etc.

3.	a fixed or established mode of procedure or course of life, usually dull or unpromising: to fall into a rut.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to make a rut or ruts in; furrow.

[Origin: 1570–80; perh. var. of route

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–noun

1.	the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.

–verb (used without object)

2.	to be in the condition of rut.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME rutte < MF rut, ruit < LL rugītus a roaring, equiv. to L rugī(re) to roar + -tus suffix of v. action

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rut¹ Audio Help (rŭt) Pronunciation Key
n.

A sunken track or groove made by the passage of vehicles.
A fixed, usually boring routine.

tr.v. rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts
To furrow.

[Possibly alteration of route.]

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rut² Audio Help (rŭt) Pronunciation Key
n.

An annually recurring condition or period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in male deer.
A condition or period of mammalian sexual activity, such as estrus.

intr.v. rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts
To be in rut.

[Middle English rutte, from Old French rut, from Vulgar Latin *rūgitus, from *rūgere, to roar, from Latin rūgīre, to roar.]

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rut (1)

"track," 1580, probably from M.E. route (see route); though OED finds this "improbable." metaphoric meaning "narrow, monotonous routine" first attested 1839.

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rut (2)

"animal mating season" (originally of deer), c.1410, from O.Fr. rut, ruit, from L.L. rutigum (nom. rugitus) "a bellowing," from pp. of L. rugire "to bellow." The verb is recorded from c.1625.

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rut
noun
1.	a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
2.	a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"
3.	applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus] [ant: anestrum]
verb
1.	be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
2.	hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" [syn: furrow]

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rut

see in a rut.

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rut [rat] noun

a deep track made by a wheel etc in soft ground
Example: The road was full of ruts.

Arabic:	قَناه، أُخْدود
Chinese (Simplified):	车辙
Chinese (Traditional):	車轍
Czech:	vyježděná kolej
Danish:	hjulspor
Dutch:	wagenspoor
Estonian:	roobas
Finnish:	ura
French:	ornière
German:	die Furche
Greek:	αυλάκι
Hungarian:	kerékvágás
Icelandic:	hjólfar, skorningur
Indonesian:	alur
Italian:	solco

Japanese:	車の跡
Korean:	바퀴 자국, 차 지나간 자국
Latvian:	grambas
Lithuanian:	vėžė
Norwegian:	hjulspor
Polish:	koleina
Portuguese (Brazil):	sulco
Portuguese (Portugal):	sulco
Romanian:	făgaş, urmă
Russian:	колея
Slovak:	vyjazdená koľaj
Slovenian:	kolesnica
Spanish:	surco, bache
Swedish:	hjulspår
Turkish:	derin tekerlek izi

See also: rutted, in a rut

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Main Entry: ²rut
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Forms: rut·ted; rut·ting
: to be in or enter into a state of rut

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Main Entry: ¹rut
Pronunciation: 'r&t
Function: noun
1 : an annually recurrent state of sexual excitement in the male deer; broadly : sexual excitement in a mammal (as estrus in the female) especially when periodic
2 : the period during which rut normally occurs —often used with the

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Rut

Rote\, n. [Cf. Rut roaring.] The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

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Rut

Rote\, n. [Cf. Rut roaring.] The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

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Rut

Rote\, n. [OF. rote, F. route, road, path. See Route, and cf. Rut a furrow, Routine.] A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote. --Swift.

till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote. --Chaucer.

Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell. --Shak.

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Rut

Route\ (r[=oo]t or rout; 277), n. [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.] The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

Wide through the furzy field their route they take. --Gay.

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Rut

Rut\, n. [F. rut, OF. ruit, L. rugitus a roaring, fr. rugire to roar; -- so called from the noise made by deer in rutting time.]

1. (Physiol.) Sexual desire or [oe]strus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the [oe]strus exists.

2. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

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Rut

Rut\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rutting.] To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.

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Rut

Rut\, v. t. To cover in copulation. --Dryden.