noun
1.
a furrow or track in the ground, especially 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.
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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 Middle English rutte < Middle French rut, ruit < Late Latin rugītus a roaring, equivalent to Latin rugī(re) to roar + -tus suffix of v. action
1375–1425; late Middle English rutte < Middle French rut, ruit < Late Latin rugītus a roaring, equivalent to Latin rugī(re) to roar + -tus suffix of v. action
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rut1 (rʌt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a groove or furrow in a soft road, caused by wheels |
| 2. | any deep mark, hole, or groove |
| 3. | a narrow or predictable way of life, set of attitudes, etc; dreary or undeviating routine (esp in the phrase in a rut) |
| —vb , ruts, rutting, rutted | |
| 4. | (tr) to make a rut or ruts in |
| [C16: probably from French route road] | |
| rut2 (rʌt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females |
| 2. | another name for oestrus |
| —vb , ruts, rutting, rutted | |
| 3. | (intr) (of male ruminants) to be in a period of sexual excitement and activity |
| [C15: from Old French rut noise, roar, from Latin rugītus, from rugīre to roar] | |
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Word Origin & History
rut
"track," 1580, probably from M.E. route (see route); though OED finds this "improbable." metaphoric meaning "narrow, monotonous routine" first attested 1839.
rut
"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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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Except when it's time to swerve around a pothole, or bump across a rut-filled intersection.
It's good to be reminded that progress continues even when the larger economy and polity are stuck in a rut.
The question, then, is how the sector might climb out of its rut.
Two years ago, he was invisible in the game of golf, lost in a rut of bad thoughts and shaky mechanics.
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