Route

/ɹuːt/ · noun

Meaning

A course or way which is traveled or passed..

Definitions by Sense

1. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
2. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
3. A road or path; often specifically a highway.
4. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
5. (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
6. (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
7. (horse racing) A race longer than one mile.
8. (rail transport) A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.

Example Sentences

The route was used so much that it formed a rut.

You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles.

I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

We live near the bus route.

Here is a map of our delivery routes.

The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30.

Follow Route 49 out of town.

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Word Forms

• routes
• routeing
• routing
• routed

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