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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary]
2: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation [syn: road, route] v
1: send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
2: send via a specific route
3: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French rute, from Vulgar Latin *rupta (via), literally, broken way, from Latin rupta, feminine of ruptus, past participle Date: 13th century 1. a. a traveled way ; highway <the main route north> b. a means of access ; channel <the route to social mobility — T. F. O'Dea> 2. a line of travel ; course 3. a. an established or selected course of travel or action b. an assigned territory to be systematically covered <a newspaper route> II. transitive verb (routed; routing) Date: 1832 1. to send by a selected route ; direct <was routed along the scenic shore road> 2. to divert in a specified direction

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) The prescribed course to be traveled from a specific point of origin to a specific destination. See also controlled route; dispatch route; lateral route; reserved route; supervised route.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

Mil. also n. & v. --n. 1 a way or course taken (esp. regularly) in getting from a starting-point to a destination. 2 US a round travelled in delivering, selling, or collecting goods. 3 Mil. archaic marching orders. --v.tr. (routeing) send or forward or direct to be sent by a particular route. Phrases and idioms: route man US = ROUNDSMAN 1. route march a training-march for troops. Etymology: ME f. OF r(o)ute road ult. f. L ruptus broken

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rout Rout, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See Rupture, reave, and cf. Rote repetition of forms, Route. In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.] [Formerly spelled also route.] 1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] ``A route of ratones [rats].'' --Piers Plowman. ``A great solemn route.'' --Chaucer. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. --Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser. 2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser. The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak. Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton. 3. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete. thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. --pope. 4. (Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof. --Wharton. 5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. ``At routs and dances.'' --Landor. To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(routes, routing, routed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A route is a way from one place to another. ...the most direct route to the town centre... All escape routes were blocked by armed police... N-COUNT 2. A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly. ...the main shipping routes to Japan. N-COUNT: oft supp N 3. In the United States, Route is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities. ...the Broadway-Webster exit on Route 580. N-IN-NAMES: N num 4. Your route is the series of visits you make to different people or places, as part of your job. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use round, rounds) He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route... N-COUNT 5. You can refer to a way of achieving something as a route. Researchers are trying to get at the same information through an indirect route... = road N-COUNT: usu with supp 6. If vehicles, goods, or passengers are routed in a particular direction, they are made to travel in that direction. Double-stack trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks... Approaching cars will be routed into two lanes. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv, be V-ed prep/adv 7. En route to a place means on the way to that place. En route is sometimes spelled on route in non-standard English. They have arrived in London en route to the United States... One of the bags was lost en route. PHRASE: oft PHR to/from/for n 8. Journalists sometimes use en route when they are mentioning an event that happened as part of a longer process or before another event. The German set three tournament records and equalled two others en route to grabbing golf's richest prize. PHRASE: oft PHR to n/-ing 9. If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished. (AM) They have gone the route, in many cases, of just big–big bowls, big statues, big masks, big everything. PHRASE: go inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Way, path, passage, course, road.

Moby Thesaurus

address, air lane, avenue, beat, carry, circuit, conduct, consign, convey, course, direct, direction, dispatch, escort, flight path, forward, itinerary, lead, line, orbit, passage, path, pilot, primrose path, remit, road, round, run, sea lane, see, shepherd, ship, shortcut, show, steer, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, transmit, walk, way