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route

  [root, rout] noun, verb, rout⋅ed, rout⋅ing.
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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
6. 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. rout 1

Synonyms:
3. beat, circuit.
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Main Entry:  reroute
Part of Speech:  v
Definition:  to change the route or path of, to send another way; also written re-route
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Word Origin & History

route 
c.1225, from O.Fr. rute "road, way, path," from L. rupta (via) "(a road) opened by force," from rupta, fem. pp. of rumpere "to break" (see rupture). Sense of "fixed or regular course for carrying things" (cf. mail route) is 1792, an extension of the meaning "customary path of animals" (1410).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: route
Pronunciation: 'rüt, 'raut
Function: noun
: a method of transmitting a disease or of administering a remedy route of … infection —M. L. Furcolow>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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