a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
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a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.
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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)
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to fix the route of: to route a tour.
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to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.
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Routesis always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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; Middle English: way, course < Old French < Latin rupta (via) broken (road), feminine past participle of rumpere to break; compare rout1
Related forms
mis·route, verb (used with object), -rout·ed, -rout·ing.
pre·route, verb (used with object), -rout·ed, -rout·ing.
early 13c., 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