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rout⋅ing

  [roo-ting, rou-]
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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 + -ing 1

rout

1  [rout]
–noun
1. a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder: to put an army to rout; to put reason to rout.
2. any overwhelming defeat: a rout of the home team by the state champions.
3. a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.
4. the rabble or mob.
5. Law. a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot although they do not actually carry out the intention.
6. a large, formal evening party or social gathering.
7. Archaic. a company or band of people.
–verb (used with object)
8. to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight: to rout an army.
9. to defeat decisively: to rout an opponent in conversation.
Origin:
1200–50; (n.) ME < AF rute, OF route a fraction, detachment < L rupta, fem. ptp. of rumpere to break; (v.) deriv. of the n.

Synonyms:
3. swarm, horde. 9. overwhelm, overcome, subdue.

route

  [root, rout] noun, verb, rout⋅ed, rout⋅ing.
–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.

rout

2  [rout] ,
–verb (used without object)
1. to root: pigs routing in the garden.
2. to poke, search, or rummage.
–verb (used with object)
3. to turn over or dig up (something) with the snout.
4. to find or get by searching, rummaging, etc. (usually fol. by out).
5. to cause to rise from bed (often fol. by up or out).
6. to force or drive out.
7. to hollow out or furrow, as with a scoop, gouge, or machine.
Origin:
1540–50; alter. of root 2 ; cf. MD ruten to root out

rout

3  [rout] ,
–verb (used without object) Archaic.
to snore.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME routen, OE hrūtan; c. OHG hrūzan

rout

4  [rout, root] ,Chiefly British Dialect
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
1. to bellow; roar.
–noun
2. a bellow.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME rowten < ON rauta to bellow; akin to L rudere
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rout 1   (rout)   
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.
  3. A public disturbance; a riot.
  4. A company, as of knights or wolves, that are in movement. See Synonyms at flock1.
  5. A fashionable gathering.
tr.v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routs
  1. To put to disorderly flight or retreat: "the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun" (Virginia Woolf).
  2. 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.]
rout 2   (rout)   
v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routs

v.   intr.
  1. To dig with the snout; root.
  2. To poke around; rummage.
v.   tr.
  1. To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
  2. To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
  3. To drive or force out as if by digging; eject: rout out an informant.
  4. Archaic To dig up with the snout.

[Variant of root2.]
rout 3   (rout, rōōt)   
intr.v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routs Chiefly British
To bellow. Used of cattle.

[Middle English routen, to roar, from Old Norse rauta.]
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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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".
(2002-07-31)

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