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route
[ root, rout ]
noun
- a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
What's the shortest route to Boston?
- a customary or regular line of passage or travel:
There's a ship from our company on the North Atlantic route.
- a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of their work or duty:
a newspaper route;
a mail carrier's route.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used with object)
- to set the path of:
to route a tour.
- to send or forward by a particular course or road:
It's the post office's job to route mail to its proper destination.
route
/ ː /
noun
- the choice of roads taken to get to a place
- a regular journey travelled
- capital a main road between cities
Route 66
- mountaineering the direction or course taken by a climb
- med the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection
oral route
verb
- to plan the route of; send by a particular route
Usage
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·dzܳٱ verb (used with object) misrouted misrouting
- ·dzܳٱ verb (used with object) prerouted prerouting
- ·dzܳٱ verb rerouted rerouting
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of route1
Idioms and Phrases
- go the route, Informal.
- to see something through to completion:
It was a tough assignment, but he went the route.
- Baseball. to pitch the complete game:
The heat and humidity were intolerable, but the pitcher managed to go the route.
Example Sentences
The landmark also featured in the opening scene of the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small in the 1980s and is on the Coast to Coast path route.
Aboard Air Force One en route to Miami, Florida, on Thursday, Trump praised Ms Loomer and confirmed he had met with her, calling her a "great patriot" and a "very strong person".
Jockey is qualified aircraft pilot although nearly took wrong route at Cheltenham last month before recovering to finish third in Cross Country Chase.
In neighbouring Syria, the ouster of Bashar al-Assad's regime has disrupted the route used by Iran, its main supporter, for the supply of weapons and money.
They are proposing three major routes of pylons through the Welsh countryside in Powys, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, each spanning several miles.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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