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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

route / roōt; rout/ • n. a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination: our route was via the Jerusalem road. ∎ the line of a road, path, railroad, etc. ∎ a circuit traveled in delivering, selling, or collecting goods. ∎ a method or process leading to a specified result: the many routes to a healthier diet will be described. • v. (rout·ing ; Brit. also route·ing) [tr.] send or direct along a specified course: all lines of communication were routed through Atlanta. ORIGIN: Middle English: from Old French rute ‘road,’ from Latin rupta (via) ‘broken (way),’ feminine past participle of rumpere.

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route

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

route rōōt; rowt n.
1. a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination: our route was via the Jerusalem road.

2. the line of a road, path, railroad, etc.
v. routing send or direct along a specified course: all lines of communication were routed through Atlanta.

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route

A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

route The path used to move information from one place to another. In a packet switching network it is the list of nodes that a particular packet or class of packets is to follow or has followed.

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route

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

route way, course XIII (obs. in ME. in XV; readopted XVI); (mil.) order to march, marching orders XVIII. — OF. rute (also mod.) route :- Rom. *rupta (see ROUT1).

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T. F. HOAD. "route." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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route

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

route •acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, fruit, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, mute, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, root, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute •Paiute • jackboot • freeboot • top boot •snow boot • gumboot • marabout •statute • bandicoot • Hakluyt •archlute • absolute • dissolute •irresolute, resolute •jackfruit • passion fruit • breadfruit •grapefruit • snakeroot • beetroot •arrowroot • autoroute

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