route

CEFRA2

/ɹuːt/

noun · verb

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In plain English

01
noun
A way or direction between places.
02
verb
To send someone or something along a particular path.

Examples

The party, therefore, had to take another route.
Which is the best route to take?

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/ɹaʊt/
/ɹut/

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noun

Extra meanings

A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
A course or way which is traveled or passed.

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In context

Take the shortest route to Paris.
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.

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The delivery van had a specific blank to every house on the street each day.

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
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.
2013 March 26, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83
If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route. […] Another route is to have a programmatic investment strategy […]. Rolex has taken this route […]
2010, Damien McLoughlin, David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 156–7
The Chinese, ever since the first century of our era, have called the countries which we to-day name Kashgar and Sungaria, "routes." They referred them to their relative position on the two sides of the Tian-Shan, and called our Sungaria, Pe-lu, " northern route," and our Kashgar, Nan-lu, " southern route." The Turks gave other names to these countries; they called the northern route besh-balik, "the five cities," Pentapolis; the southern route was alti-shehr, " the six cities," Hexapolis.
1908, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World
Under the director were eight education promotion officials (quanxue yuan), each installed in a “route”(lu,corresponding to the policing ward).
2005, Huaiyin Li, Village Governance In North China: Huailu County, 1875-1936, →ISBN

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Origin

noun

From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta [via] (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route. See routine. Further via Latin ruptus related with bankrupt.

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noun

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The delivery van had a specific blank— to every house on the street each day.

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noun

The delivery van had a specific blank to every house on the street each day.