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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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route   (rōōt, rout)   
n.  
  1. Abbr. Rt. or Rte.
    1. A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another.
    2. A highway.
  2. A customary line of travel. See Synonyms at way.
  3. A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.
  4. Football A pass pattern.
  5. A means of reaching a goal.
tr.v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routes
  1. To send or forward by a specific route. See Synonyms at send1.
  2. 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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Route

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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Language Translation for : route
Spanish: camino, itinerario,
German: die Route,
Japanese: 道筋
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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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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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route networking
/root/ The sequence of hosts, routers, bridges, gateways, and other devices that network traffic takes, or could take, from its source to its destination. As a verb, to determine the link down which to send a packet, that will minimise its total journey time according to some routeing algorithm.
You can find the route from your computer to another using the program traceroute on Unix or tracert on Microsoft Windows.
(2001-05-26)

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