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Definition of Route
1. Noun. An established line of travel or access.
Specialized synonyms: Feeder Line, Main Line, Data Track, Track, Air Lane, Airway, Flight Path, Skyway, Approach Pattern, Pattern, Traffic Pattern, Flight Path, Beat, Round, Bus Route, Line Of Flight, Line Of March, Celestial Orbit, Orbit, Electron Orbit, Orbit, Paper Round, Paper Route, Beeline, Circuit, Crosscut, Supply Line, Supply Route, Line Of Fire, Flyway, Migration Route, Fairway, Direction, Way, Trade Route
Generic synonyms: Line
Specialized synonyms: Northwest Passage
2. Verb. Send documents or materials to appropriate destinations.
3. Noun. An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation.
Specialized synonyms: Access Road, Slip Road, Bypath, Byroad, Byway, Causeway, Clearway, Corduroy, Detour, Roundabout Way, Drive, Parkway, Drive, Driveway, Private Road, Highway, Main Road, Line, Rail Line, Railway Line, Post Road, Roadway, Crosscut, Cutoff, Shortcut, Side Road, Skid Road, Speedway, Thoroughfare, Cart Track, Cartroad, Track, Turnoff
Terms within: Bend, Curve, Crest, Crown, Carrefour, Crossing, Crossroad, Crossway, Intersection, Roadbed, Berm, Shoulder, Circle, Rotary, Roundabout, Traffic Circle, Turnaround, Turnout, Widening
Terms within: Pavement, Paving
Generic synonyms: Way
4. Verb. Send via a specific route.
5. Verb. Divert in a specified direction. "Divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"
Definition of Route
1. n. The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.
Definition of Route
1. Noun. A course or way which is traveled or passed. ¹
2. Noun. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. ¹
3. Noun. A road or path; often specifically a highway. ¹
4. Noun. (figuratively) An option for how to solve a given problem or achieve a given goal: a method, a way, a path, an approach. ¹
5. Verb. To direct or divert along a particular course. ¹
6. Verb. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Route
1. to send on a particular course [v ROUTED, ROUTING, ROUTES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Route
Literary usage of Route
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"But perhaps the most compelling reason to follow route 66 is to experience the
... Before it was called route 66, and long before it was even paved in 1926, ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"The information in the possession of the Intelligence Department showed that in
the only part of the country where a suitable route was likely to exist, ..."
3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"He went by the northern route, crossing the desert of Gobi, passing along the
... He returned by the southern route, crossing the Pamirs from Afghanistan to ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"The camels were the ordinary baggage animals, rough to a degree, going a solemn
pace of from two to three miles per hour, according as the route ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"The Great Central Asian Trade route from Peking to ... The actual lengths of the
journey were, by the great trade route (68 days, 7 halts), 61 travelling ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Among the chief lines radiating from it are one through Leipzig and Munich and
connecting with the Italian railway system by the Brenner route, and another ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"IN the following paper I can hope to give but a very brief outline of the
information collected and the route taken by the Society's Expedition. ..."
8. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"China, ancient sea route to, 651 Southern, ... route map, 413 Irawadi River, the
sources of, 328 Malay Peninsula, 45G Maltratta Country, sketch map, ..."
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