routen.¹

Brit.

/ruːt/, U.S.

/rut/,

/raʊt/

Forms: early Middle English rute, Middle English– route, 1500s roote, 1500s rowt (Scottish), 1500s rowte, 1500s–1800s rout, 1600s rote, 1600s routte.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French route.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French rute, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French rote, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French route, Middle French routte way, direction (first quarter of the 12th cent.), course (of a ship) (c1160), path, passageway (c1170), the course of a military march (a1683) < classical Latin rupta (short for via rupta broken way), feminine of ruptus broken, past participle of rumpere to break (see rumpent n.); compare rumpere viam to open up a path. Compare post-classical Latin ruta , rutta way, road (13th cent. in British sources; 14th cent. in continental sources). For a different development of classical Latin rupta compare rout n.¹The pronunciation with a diphthong is recorded from the second half of the 18th cent. and preferred by some, but not all commentators at that time; it disappears from standard British English in the course of the 19th cent., but is still widespread in North America.

a. A way or course taken in moving from a starting point to a destination; a regular line of travel or passage; the course of a river, stream, etc. Also: a means of passage; a way in or out. Cf. en route adv.Often with modifying word indicating the purpose of travel; for more established compounds, as air, bus, lane-, migration-, red, silk, stock-, trade route, etc., see the first element.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun]

wayOE

route?c1225

line1426

itinerary?a1475

tract1555

road1598

wad1854

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 258 Þe gode pilegrim..halt forð his rute & hiȝeð towart his giste.

c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 74 Hunters of biyonde þe see callen of an hert or of a boor þe routes and þe pace..‘pace’ þei clepyn goynges where a beest gooþ in þe routes where as he is passid.

a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) 3634 (MED) Men of Inde fer in the est that know neuer route ther before, senden hym tribut.

1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 88 As some report, the River Ganges was carried from her wonted Rote, to runne in a new chanell.

1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 880 The Routs, Courses and Distances of the principal Ports.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4732/1 We were to take the Rout through the Sarfana.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson Introd. sig. c4^v The chart of that northern Ocean, and the particulars of their route through it.

1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. i. iv. 80 They parted from one another, and set forwards upon separate routes.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. iii. 28 It is impossible to conceive a rout of more grandeur than this famous road along the Mediterranean from Nice to Genoa.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. i. x. 113 They had gone by separate routes to separate ports.

1891 Times 1 Aug. 8/3 The collision occurred at 2.30 a.m. about four miles off Dover, right in the trading route.

1928 Travel Feb. 4 (advt.) A most unusual cruise—especially notable for the completeness of its route which includes several..little-known places.

1962 E. Roosevelt Autobiogr. II. xx. 157 Our route was given out beforehand, so that people could have an opportunity to see Their Majesties.

2002 Geist Winter 13/2 A row of tiny trees frozen into the snow and ice mark the route across.

†b. The direction in which a ship sails. Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > course

ship ren1297

course1553

route?1568

voyage1581

caping1595

wakec1595

run1688

?1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 52 Steir be the compas, and keip hir rowt.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. ii. 5 b The Captaine generall commaunded, that..they shuld every one make, and keepe, their roote or course to Cabo Verde.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. ii. xxx. f. 202^v The Mariners.., to be the better assured of their routes and courses on the sea, do deuide euery quarter of the Horizon into 8. seuerall windes.

c. The designated course of a race.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > course or track

coursec1320

race1612

piste1696

route1771

track1836

path1883

athletics track1952

parcours1971

1771 R. Berenger Hist. & Art Horsemanship I. 289 The route of the race was from the right wheeling to the left, round the extreme meta or terminus and then returning back to the same ground.

1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 2 Aug. 2/6 The route of the race was from the judges' boat..in the direction of Broad Sound, passing between the crotched buoy on Fawn Bar, and the Ram Head buoy, off Nahant.

1886 R. Black Horse-racing in France 362 The route was from the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, through the Bois de Boulogne, St. Cloud, La Marche, [etc.].

1908 Times 25 July 8/2 The scene along the course of the Marathon route yesterday was one that will not easily be forgotten.

2008 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 27/1 In recent years, the race has gradually moved north from its traditional route.

d. North American. A way or road by which post is regularly conveyed prior to being sorted and delivered; a postal route.mail, post, rural route: see the first element.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > postal routes

post line1791

route1792

mail road1818

rural route1852

1792 Deb. Congr. U.S. 10 Jan. (1849) 58 The route by which the mails are at present conveyed shall in no case be altered.

1821 Deb. Congr. U.S. 31 Dec. (1855) I. 47 Praying that the route of the mail from Savannah to Augusta..may not be altered.

1855 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 22 Feb. To the Postmaster General for the increase of mail service on route number 13,744 between Janesville and Madison.

1906 N. Robertson Hist. County of Bruce v. 64 On this route two post-offices in Bruce were established.

1977 J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family 32 The ferry was an important link on the Albany Post Road route which extended from the city of New York to the upper Hudson River community.

2004 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 19 Feb. a19 In 1673, the first postrider galloped off from New York on his way to Boston establishing the first major overland route in the American colonies.

e. North American. = round n.¹ 24b(a). Cf. milk route n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a, paper route n. at paper n. and adj. Compounds 2.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > habitual

round1603

beat1786

route1841

1841 Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 5 May 2/4 He succeeded in obtaining possession of a route for a morning penny paper.

1849 C. Mathews Moneypenny xiii. 119 Go upstairs, and tell Wages to give you the St. John's Park route. He'll fix your pay.

1892 Postal Rec. Jan. 29/1 One of our carriers, a man who has a ‘country route’, was surprised at Christmas in receiving from a person on his route a present.

1925 Winnipeg Free Press 28 Feb. 6/1 The boy told him he was going to help another boy with a newspaper route, and couldn't caddy any more.

1976 Washington Post 19 Apr. c14/4 (advt.) Routes are available in the metropolitan Washington area to aggressive persons who are experienced Route Sales people.

1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. i. 9 I was going to help my dad on his route before he took me to school.

f. A highway, esp. in the United States. Frequently with following numeral. Cf. route nationale n.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road

great road1614

high road1620

main road1741

highway1837

traffic artery1845

trunk road1848

main-way1862

arterial road1886

primary roada1903

route1912

arterial1920

major road1930

spine road1961

1912 Michigan Manufacturer & Financial Rec. 30 Nov. 3/3 The through routes should be built and maintained by the state.

1924 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. viii. 9/7 Route 2 is the highway from Scranton Pa...to Montreal.

1933 R. Kipling Souvenirs of France i. 18 That was the Rhone Road, Route 7.

1946 B. Troup Get your Kicks on Route 66! (song) If you ever plan to motor west—Travel my way, take the highway that's the best.—Get your kicks on Route Sixty-Six!

1971 Pop. Mech. June 83 Three-digit numbers with the first figure odd denote spur routes—offshoots that may or may not connect with adjacent Interstates.

2006 Chesapeake Life Nov. 132/1 One night, a state trooper named Robert Burkhardt saw a ball of light near route 50—one mile outside of town.

g. American Football. A specific course run by a pass receiver as part of a prearranged play. Frequently with preceding word or words indicating the direction or type of course. Cf. pattern n. 12.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres > pre-arranged

route1919

pattern1949

man to man1971

1919 Boston Globe 8 Oct. 7/3 Each scored a touchdown, Horween via the end-run route.

1969 Chicago Tribune 28 Sept. ii. 3/1 He had the ability to get the ball to his receivers and they ran good routes.

1990 A. A. Berger Agitpop ii. 23 The quarterback may overthrow his receiver, or not notice a defensive back, or the receiver may run his route incorrectly.

2010 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 1 Feb. 15 Unless they're named Dan Marino and can fling a football to a tight end on a slant route, I don't think dolphins qualify as people.

a. In extended use. A series of steps taken to achieve something; a manner or method of proceeding; an abstract or notional course (corresponding to various senses of course n. III.).

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c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 48 Wo-so lokeþ, ne geþ he nauȝt derk, Ac lyȝt ine lyues route.

a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd (Cambr.) (1930) l. 332 (MED) Thus shal þe game go aboute, And who so falys of þis route..Get hym drynk wher he will, He getys non here.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. i. 6 The narrow, rough, and unbeaten routs of Industry, and labour.

1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 377 This Emulation disposed him to take a different Rout to Fame.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 223 At ev'ry interview their route the same, The repetition makes attention lame.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 293 It seems to me there was pretty much regularity in the rout of the disease... From Paris it broke out in London, taking a western course until it reached this place; from hence it went into Cornwall.

1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV li. 30 It wearies out. So the end's gain'd, what signifies the route?

1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 374 Nature seems..to reach many of her ends by long circuitous routes.

1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. vii. xxiv. 291 In ‘acid’ plants..the decomposition of protein takes an alternative route to that already indicated for ‘amide’ plants.

1983 L. R. Miller & K. Gilman Horses at Work 34 (caption) Eagle's operation is powered exclusively by horses. Many horsefarmers are going this route.

2004 Independent 27 Oct. 30/4 The fact is, though, that this will be only one route to raising women's pay.

†b. A regularly followed procedure; a routine. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine

rote1581

route1725

routine1760

habituality1801

automatism1882

mechanicalism1903

autopilot1967

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Blood Those who use sick Persons only by a certain Rout, order them to be bled.

1784 Med. Observ. & Inq. VI. vi. 50 Fully convinced that it was in vain to pursue the usual route of practice.

1821 W. Hutchinson Diss. Infanticide (ed. 2) Pref. It is too completely without the common route of practice.

c. With preceding noun: a manner or method of proceeding characterized by or typical of the thing or person specified.

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1891 St. Paul (Minnesota) Daily News 8 Jan. 2/1 An attempt to use money for the benefit of Ingalls has been exposed and in time to prevent success by the bribery route.

1920 H. A. Cody Glen of High North xxi. 194 ‘We'll have to find some way, but the question is, how?’ ‘The gun-route might be the best,’ and Curly motioned significantly toward the rifle.

1977 Time 19 Dec. 12/2 The former Prime Minister..has chosen to write books and sell records rather than go the David Frost route.

2006 Review (Rio Tinto Group) June 10/3 Companies have to seek genuine industrial synergies in any merger and acquisition route they follow.

3. Military. An order directing troops to march from one place to another, indicating the course they are to follow. Later also: an order to depart for active service. Frequently in to give (also deliver, get, etc.) the route.

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society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > [noun] > order to march

route1707

marching orders1714

1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 73 This Regiment, to shew his Lordship had no great mind to delay his march into Castile, had their route given them, the very same day they were mounted.

1711 Mem. Visct. Dundee 112 Thence march'd to Tourellers for Winter Quarters, where they received a Rout to march to Alsace.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ix. 68 This Letter was from his Captain, to acquaint him, that the Rout, as they call it, was arrived, and that they were to march within two Days.

1776 Let. 28 Mar. in Proc. Amer. Antiquatian Soc. (1881) Apr. 142 The QM Gen^l or his Assistant, will provide nine teams for each Reg^t and the Adjutant Gen^l will deliver the route and orders to Gen^l Sullivan.

1826 G. R. Gleig Subaltern iii Nor was it till the evening of the 27th that the long-expected route arrived.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxiv. 206 As transports were in plenty, they would get their route before the week was over.

1886 C. E. L. Riddell For Dick's Sake ii We are expecting to be sent on active service immediately, and..I don't care how soon we get the route.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 120 A feeling of..satisfaction possessed him when he got the route for Warbrok.

1904 J. L. Vaughan My Service Indian Army ix. 122 The Fifth received the route for Kohat, but I was privileged to accompany our wounded General.

1915 ‘A. Hilliers’ Demi-royal xv. 162 Ye will get the route in a jiffey, Doodles, for ye are wanted in the Peninsula.

Phrases

P1. column of route: a formation assumed by troops when marching, its organization being governed by tactical considerations, local terrain, the position of supply lines, etc.; the fact or state of being organized in such a formation. Cf. column of march n. at march n.⁵ 2b.

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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > column

narrow front1623

column1677

colonne1678

column of route1792

1792 Rules & Regulations for Formations His Majesty's Forces (ed. 2) iv. 347 No loud signals or even commands, or music or drums, can be used in columns of route.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at March His next care must be the arrangement of all its different component parts, with which he will form his column of route.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 179 A Column of Route is to proceed with as extensive a front as the road will permit.

1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War iv. 51 Here I made the men reform their divisions, and commence retiring slowly by fours in column of route.

1922 P. S. Bond & E. H. Crouch Tactics xxvi. 206 To provide for the security of a column of route..covering detachments are interposed between the main column and the..positions of the enemy.

1976 Broadcast Dec. 17/2 There can be few occupations so completely degrading as marching in column-of-route.

2008 Pembroke (Ont.) Observer (Nexis) 7 Oct. 3 The Brigade to be granted Freedom of the City marches toward city hall, in column of route.

P2. Chiefly U.S. (originally regional). to go the route: (a) Horse Racing (of a horse) to hold out until the end of a race; (b) (more generally) to go the distance; to go all the way; (c) Baseball to pitch for an entire game.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > pitch

to go the route1875

screwball1933

the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > follow up, out, or through [verb (intransitive)] > to the end

to tug it outa1641

to go all the way1799

to go the route1926

1875 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 Nov. 3/5 The dam of Fannie Hall being by Belmont is a pretty good guarantee that she will go the route, with a brush left at the finish.

1899 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 11 Dec. 8/3 Hudson is considered in line for the lightweight championship and..he went the route, 20 rounds, with Jack Daly..recently.

1913 Chicago Record-Herald 16 Mar. viii. 1/5 This was the first complete battle Cicotte has pitched, and he was watched closely to see if he could go the route.

1918 Chicago Sunday Tribune 9 June 25/1 She had undertaken to ‘go the route in this piano thing’.

1926 J. Black You can't Win xvi. 230 If a Chinese doesn't like you he will keep away from you; if he does like you he will go the route.

1963 I. Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service iv. 45 She made love with the fervour and expertness of a girl who, in the American phrase, had ‘gone the route’.

1974 Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 11/3 Steve Rogers went the route, giving up six hits.

1990 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 5 May e8 My choice is Thirty Six Red, the winner of the Wood Memorial, who has shown that he can carry the weight and go the route.

1997 B. Geoffrion & S. Fischler Boom Boom vii. 90 The odds makers..established us as two and a half to one favourites to go the route.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

route book n.

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1818 Q. Rev. Jan. 378 From one of the travelling Moors, he obtained..a route-book.

1910 (title) Route book for the British Isles.

1997 Amer. Alpine Jrnl. 22 338 Paul Ross, following a British tradition, kept a new route book in a local mountaineering store.

route card n.

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1857 G. P. R. James Leonora d'Orco xv. 53/1 At Belgiojoso.., you will find the route-card, as far as Bologna, with every day's march laid down.

1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 39 British rallies require only the accurate plotting of six-figure map references plus the ability to..read from a simple route-card.

2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 182 Drivers have no idea where they're going until they get a route card at the next checkpoint.

route check n.

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1894 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst.1893 19 546 (bibliogr. ref.) Description and Theory of a Route Check (controlêur de route).

1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 37 Route checks, or passage controls, are also a feature of the majority of rallies.

2006 T. Good Need to Know (2007) ix. 137 Bethune was in the left seat at the time, getting a route check in order to qualify as plane commander.

route form n.

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1845 Law Times 29 Mar. 497/2 It [sc. a forged pass] was defective in the omission of..the title..of the first or certificate form, the ‘direction for filling up’ at the end of the second or route form, [etc.].

1888 J. Pennell & E. R. Pennell Sent. Journey 99 The route-form was passed from one to the other.

1994 P. A. J. Waddington Liberty & Order iv. 77 The ‘route form’ was..a standardized letter on official headed note paper that contained details of the agreed route.

route number n.

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1881 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 6 May 3/4 In issuing tickets from the foreign book, the baggage agent..will be very particular to write in the form or route number of passage ticket.

1924 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. viii. 9/7 The route number is painted in figures five inches high.

1973 D. Westheimer Going Public iv. 64 He memorized the route numbers of the buses.

1990 Mountain Nov.–Dec. 47/2 The route numbers in blue are difficult to spot in diagrams.

b. Objective.

route-finding n.

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1893 C. Wilson Mountaineering iii. 13 The man who will go often enough..will assuredly gain some practical and useful knowledge of hill-walking, route-finding, and rock-scrambling.

1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 June 1321/1 Besides route-finding and obstacle detection, sight also helps in maintaining poise or balance.

2006 Church Times 17 Mar. 25/3 Vital equipment included..a wrist-compass (essential for route-finding).

route planning n.

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1898 Cycling 23 Apr. 362/1 In spite of the notice at the head of ‘Routes and Replies’ that I do not undertake foreign route planning, I am constantly in receipt of such requests.

1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 51/1 The Central Electricity Generating Board..is constantly faced with route-planning problems.

2007 D. Atkinson Bolivia (Bradt Travel Guides) iv. 116 [The map] covers the entire range from Illampu to Illimani and provides an excellent big picture for route planning.

route-proving n.

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1941 Times 27 Nov. 3/1 The Capetown Clipper arrived here to-day, completing successfully a route-proving flight..to the Belgian Congo and back.

2007 New Yorker 2 Apr. 30/2 It was on a promotional and ‘route-proving’ trip organized by Airbus and Lufthansa.

C2.

route army n. now historical any of several units within nationalist and communist Chinese armies in the first half of the 20th cent.Usually preceded by a number designating the particular unit. [After Chinese lùjūn large military unit in use between the Chinese Revolution and Civil War ( < lù unit within army, similar to a regiment (a1900), larger tactical unit composed of several divisions (a1920), specific use of lù road, path, route + jūn army); in the English rendering of the Chinese word, lù has apparently been taken in its more basic meaning ‘road, path, route’.]

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1927 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. 1/2 Pa Yi-chih, secretary of the headquarters of ‘the eastern route army’, namely, General Chiang Kai-shek's army.

1971 ‘A. Burgess’ Inn of Sixth Happiness xiii. 147 He had been an officer of the Nineteenth Route Army which, with bitter gallantry, had so bloodily repulsed them.

2006 B. M. Patenaude Wealth of Ideas 82 By an arrangement reached between Chungking and Yenan in late 1937, the Red Army was now redesignated as the Eighth Route Army.

route column n. = column of route at Phrases 1.

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1869 S. P. Bates Hist. Pennsylvania Volunteers II. 528 The First and part of the Second Brigades, which were in advance, in route column, had crossed the ford at Bristoe.

1954 W. Faulkner Fable 6 It was a whole battalion..emerging from the Place de Ville in close route column.

1997 P. Cozzens Darkest Days of War ix. 103 The Seventeenth Iowa was in route column on the road.

route-goer n. U.S. Sport a person who or animal which goes the distance; (originally Horse Racing) a horse able to hold out until the end of a race; (later Baseball) a pitcher who pitches for an entire game; cf. to go the route at Phrases 2.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > pitcher

pitcher1845

relief pitcher1884

southpaw1887

side-wheeler1890

moundsman1906

pretzel bender1908

starter1911

sidewinder1913

low-ball pitcher1915

fastballer1924

route-goer1924

reliever1925

hurler1926

fireballer1928

spitballer1928

screwballer1929

stopper1948

closer1980

middleman1985

1924 Washington Post 28 Apr. (Sports) 2/3 Old Faithful is a natural route-goer... If he doesn't break down..he will prove the one to beat.

1939 Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.) 15 Sept. 15/1 This corner picks Galento to finish on top, but only it he can do it in six rounds. If he lets Lou stay around longer than that, the blond belter is the better route-goer.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 3/1 The Philadelphia 76ers had five route-goers..while Hal Greer missed only one game.

2000 New Hampsh. Sunday News (Nexis) 11 June With first base open, Exeter elected to pitch to Nick Manolis and route-goer Jason Frotton retired him on a foul pop to the pitcher.

route-going adj. U.S. Sport that goes the distance; spec. (a) (Horse Racing) (of a horse) able to hold out until the end of a race; (b) (Baseball) (of a pitcher) that pitches for an entire game; (of a pitcher's performance) characterized by this; cf. to go the route at Phrases 2.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [adjective] > types of pitching

sidearm1890

no-hit1898

low ball1915

blooper1937

bloop1947

away1950

route-going1950

split-finger1980

1950 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 23 Apr. 13/4 Five of the best route-going horses..will run up for the $350 in premiums in the offing.

1957 Baseball Digest Sept. 23/2 Tighe..insisted..that Bunning would become a route-going starter if handled correctly.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 2- h/4 Doug DeCinces and Lee May each hit three-run homers to support 39-year old Mike Cuellar's first route-going performance of the season.

2002 B. Hooley Ohio State's Unforgettables 156/2 What's a 15-inning game when you've already pitched a 16-inning, route-going effort in a must-win over Michigan?

route map n. a map containing details of a route; also figurative.

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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > planning a course of action > plan of intended course of action

plan of campaign1780

route map1816

action plan1889

end run1902

strategy1944

game plan1957

scenario1962

the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map

mappa mundia1387

mappemondea1393

table1610

Mercator's chart1645

Peutingerian tablea1657

Mercator1694

hemisphere1706

Peutinger1731

road map1741

geological map1798

route map1816

ordnance map1828

outline map1836

contour map1862

index map1869

hypsographical map1881

soil map1898

wheel-map1899

strip map1903

distribution map1947

worm's-eye map1964

topo1970

1816 in tr. Trav. Ali Bey I. p. xlii (caption) Route Map of the journies of Ali Bey in the isle of Cyprus, and from Cairo to Constantinople.

1883 Science 2 86/1 A route-map of Russia in Europe.

1925 R. W. Child Battling Criminal p. v To seek and set forth..the main truth as to the criminal's paradise we have tolerated in America and a route map of the immediate steps good citizenship will take when it determines to end the scandal.

1957 Amer. Motorcyclist June 32/2 You will receive your instructions and route map at the start.

1985 A. Gilks & G. Segal China & Arms Trade ii. 6 While there may be some broad objectives of Chinese foreign policy..there is no route map to those ends.

2004 New Yorker 5 July 39/3 She bought a BART commuter ticket and studied the route map.

route marker n. something that delineates or indicates a route.

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1897 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1896 (U.S. Patents Office) 748/1 (table) Bicycle route-marker.

1925 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. 8/3 The shield of the United States was adopted today as a model for the outline of route markers for the system of national highways.

1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xv. 148 Plenty of people cross various borders quite unintentionally during snowstorms, when they can't see the route-markers.

2003 Amer. Motorcyclist Feb. 39/2 On our side of the tracks, there's clearly a route marker pointing west, the way we want to go.

route master n. (a) a person who is responsible for the route of a procession, race, etc.; (b) (in form Routemaster) a type of double-decker bus, typically having its engine at the front and an open platform at the rear for passengers to enter or exit (a proprietary name in the United Kingdom).Routemaster buses, associated esp. with London Transport, were built by Associated Equipment Company between 1954 and 1968.

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1900 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 23 Oct. 5/7 Nothing that has occurred within living memory has..thrown upon the City officials and route masters such a tremendous burden of responsibility.

1954 Manch. Guardian 24 Sept. 8/5 A prototype of the London ‘bus of the future’ which is to be called, in the American fashion, the ‘Routemaster’.

1974 Jrnl. Transport Econ. & Policy 8 239 London Transport's front-engined 30-foot-long Routemasters have the same seating capacity (72) as their rear-engined Atlanteans.

2000 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 4 Sept. 4 a The Grand Prix's route master has personally walked and measured the time trial course from its starting point in Lynn Creek Park.

2008 S. Faulks Devil may Care ix. 117 A red double-decker bus—a London Routemaster—went slowly past, leaving a cloud of black diesel exhaust.

route-mile n. a mile-long section of a route maintained or operated by a certain business, government department, etc.; esp. a mile-long section of a transportation route.

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1880 Sixth Ann. Rep. Board Railroad Commissioners (Iowa) 350 Route 27,012, between Clinton, Iowa, and La Crescent, Minn.;..$70.97 per route mile per year.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 824/2 The [railway] rebuilding process is constant... In Europe the average route-mile capital is £27,036.

1959 J. R. Meyer Econ. Competition in Transportation Industry (1976) iv. 88 Geographical [trucking] firm size as measured by number of route miles operated.

1989 Network World 13 Feb. 6/5 WillTel's network..consists of 6,400 route miles of fiber lines and 800 route miles of microwave links.

1991 Mod. Railways Apr. 188/1 Its full proposed network would total about 18,500 route-miles.

2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. ii. 28 Many of these miles lie in parallel, to support the local/express system—only 230 distinct ‘route miles’ exist.

route mileage n. the extent in miles of the transportation routes maintained or operated by a certain business, government department, etc.

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1885 Hist. Railway Mail Service (U.S. Govt. Printing Office) 72 The last annual report (1884) showed a total route mileage of 359,530 miles.

1962 Observer 25 Mar. 1/5 Route-mileage is the length of routes, as distinct from the length of individual sets of tracks. British Railways cover about 18,500 route-miles.

2009 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 2 Oct. 10 The company will not be taking low floor buses off other better performing routes.., especially since their route mileage is peppered with traffic calming measures.

route planner n. (originally) a person who plans a route or routes, esp. as a job; (now also) a software package, website, etc., designed to assist a person in planning a route or routes.

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1918 S. V. Norton Motor Truck as Aid to Business Profits ix. 137 It is seldom possible to arrange routes which will work out as accurately as that—but how nearly can he come to it? That is the problem of the route planner.

1988 Guardian 27 Oct. 29/7 Autoroute is..built on a database of Ordnance Survey maps. It's a route planner. Tell it where you want to go: the program displays a map and prints directions for drivers to follow.

1999 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 27 168/1 The BAM has been used extensively by aircrews, flight schedulers, and low-level route planners since its implementation.

2008 Bicycling June 82 The..online route planner makes navigating Berlin by bike even easier.

route proficiency n. the proficiency of a pilot in flying a particular route.

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1950 N.Y. Times 18 Apr. 55/8 We believe it would be feasible to give route proficiency checks in it [sc. a flight simulator].

1972 FAA Air Safety Regulations (U.S. Senate Commerce Comm., 92nd Congr., 1st Sess.) 34 Part 123 has crew proficiency requirements, but none for route proficiency.

1996 Ann. Rep. S. Afr. Dept. Transport 1994–1995 23/1 Random route proficiency checks were conducted on both national and international routes of the major carriers.

route sales n. North American the action of selling goods by working a route (in sense 1e).

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1913 Milk Reporter (U.S.) Dec. 4/2 (advt.) Chicago Route Sales Department 132–138 W. Lake St.

1945 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 1 June 19/5 (advt.) Salesman wanted for route sales and service work; knowledge of automotive trade preferred.

1989 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 29 Apr. c34/7 (advt.) If you enjoy working with a variety of people..you should consider a career in route sales.

route salesman n. North American a salesman who works a particular route (in sense 1e); cf. route man n.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > salesman working particular route

route man1858

route salesman1892

1892 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 7 Aug. 2/4 Wm. Ripley, the popular northern route salesman.., came in for the regular Sunday visit with his family.

1937 Job Descr. Laundry Industry 253 Route-Man, Route Driver, Route-Salesman... Drives a Delivery Truck over an established route to collect washing from and deliver it to customers' houses.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 33/7 (advt.) Route Salesman..required by supplier of industrial garments.

2006 T. Sant Giants of Sales Pref. p. x My father..quickly rose from route salesman to ‘special salesman’.

route salesperson n. North American a salesperson who works a particular route (in sense 1e).

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1942 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 22 Aug. 6/8 (advt.) Jewel Tea Co. has opening for route salesperson, man or woman. Hutchinson territory.

1965 Winnipeg Free Press 14 Aug. 35/2 (advt.) Bright young man..to supervise circulation routes... Applicant must be able to take charge of route sales people.

2002 J. Brescoll & R. M. Dahm Opportunities in Sales Careers iii. 37 The route salesperson has varied responsibilities to the customers receiving specific goods. This seller may serve dairies, bakeries. laundries, [etc.].

route sheet n. †(a) British a written report of recent crimes and wanted persons that is circulated among police patrol officers (obsolete); (b) a piece of paper recording details of a route; (c) U.S. an itinerary for a touring company or artist.

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route sheet1840

1840 Times 21 July 6/6 In consequence of having received information of the robbery by the route sheet sent by the City Police on the night of the robbery, he had made enquiries, and had apprehended the prisoner.

1853 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Hand-bks. Ireland Introd. p. vi A route-sheet, plentifully illustrated by cuts,..will be a useful and agreeable associate in the railway carriage.

1863 Observer 15 Nov. 8/2 A police inspector recognised the prisoner as being described in the route sheet as ‘wanted’.

1909 Federal Reporter 169 1010 The production of certain burlesque shows..according to a schedule or route sheet, which your orator was to prepare each year, in conjunction with other theaters in other cities.

1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues xiv. 195 Each one..had been copying other pluggers' borrowed route-sheets and submitting them to me as evidence of work done by themselves.

2005 Cycling Plus Apr. 9/2 All the Challenge Rides are self led with route sheets and include refreshment stops.

route step n. Military (chiefly U.S.) a way of marching in which troops remain in formation but are not required to keep time, carry weapons in a prescribed way, or (usually) maintain silence; also as int., as an order to march in this way.

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1807 tr. Syst. Discipline & Manœuvres Infantry 103 in W. Duane Amer. Mil. Libr. (1809) I. He will observe to make half those that are in the rear form into line, before he commands the route step.

1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 281/1 Troops in crossing were given the order, ‘Route step’, as the oscillation of the cadence step or trotting horse is dangerous to the stability of a bridge of any kind.

1928 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 4 July 8/7 The order came to move forward at rout step.

1997 N. Johnson My Brother's Keeper viii. 67 Josh started out with a steady cadence, then stopped and let the men move along at their own pace, in route step, slower, easier.

route taxi n. chiefly Caribbean a privately owned car or minibus that carries paying passengers along a fixed course.

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1958 Soviet Lit. 9 47 The big Moscow-Vladimir route taxi at last escaped the stony labyrinth of the city.

1960 A. Niehoff & J. Niehoff East Indians in W. Indies iv. 40 They [sc. East Indians] are often regarded as pinch-penny passengers on the route taxis.

2001 R. Carrington Every Bitter Thing Sweet 52 She climbed into one of the route taxis that patiently waited outside the square to be filled.

routeway n. a line of travel or passage.

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1880 Times 10 Sept. 8/2 Passing the old route way the smoke was lighter.

1932 Economica 37 321 How far has the river actually provided a ‘through’ route-way from the Black Sea towards the upper Rhine?

1980 H. Clout Agric. in France on Eve of Railway Age iv. 50 The Allier valley forms a fine example of a natural routeway cutting through otherwise mountainous terrain.

2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 181/2 Because of its relative ease of access, the area has seen the building of some of Cheshire's most important routeways.

route zero n. (in allusion to sense 1f) any (physical or notional) road or course leading to no useful location; cf. the road to nowhere at nowhere n. and pron. 3.

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1937 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 Mar. 21/5 Work on the stretch of road grimly known as ‘Route Zero’ started about 50 years ago.... To date just 15 miles have been completed.

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed v. 41 You haven't fooled me. You're on Route Zero. You're a user—an addict.

1983 M. West World is made of Glass 50 Lose that [sc. my goodwill] and you are on Route Zero, a one-way street to nowhere.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	route
释义	routen.¹ Brit. /ruːt/, U.S. /rut/, /raʊt/ Forms: early Middle English rute, Middle English– route, 1500s roote, 1500s rowt (Scottish), 1500s rowte, 1500s–1800s rout, 1600s rote, 1600s routte. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French route. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French rute, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French rote, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French route, Middle French routte way, direction (first quarter of the 12th cent.), course (of a ship) (c1160), path, passageway (c1170), the course of a military march (a1683) < classical Latin rupta (short for via rupta broken way), feminine of ruptus broken, past participle of rumpere to break (see rumpent n.); compare rumpere viam to open up a path. Compare post-classical Latin ruta , rutta way, road (13th cent. in British sources; 14th cent. in continental sources). For a different development of classical Latin rupta compare rout n.¹The pronunciation with a diphthong is recorded from the second half of the 18th cent. and preferred by some, but not all commentators at that time; it disappears from standard British English in the course of the 19th cent., but is still widespread in North America. 1. a. A way or course taken in moving from a starting point to a destination; a regular line of travel or passage; the course of a river, stream, etc. Also: a means of passage; a way in or out. Cf. en route adv.Often with modifying word indicating the purpose of travel; for more established compounds, as air, bus, lane-, migration-, red, silk, stock-, trade route, etc., see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] wayOE route?c1225 line1426 itinerary?a1475 tract1555 road1598 wad1854 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 258 Þe gode pilegrim..halt forð his rute & hiȝeð towart his giste. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 74 Hunters of biyonde þe see callen of an hert or of a boor þe routes and þe pace..‘pace’ þei clepyn goynges where a beest gooþ in þe routes where as he is passid. a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) 3634 (MED) Men of Inde fer in the est that know neuer route ther before, senden hym tribut. 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 88 As some report, the River Ganges was carried from her wonted Rote, to runne in a new chanell. 1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 880 The Routs, Courses and Distances of the principal Ports. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4732/1 We were to take the Rout through the Sarfana. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson Introd. sig. c4^v The chart of that northern Ocean, and the particulars of their route through it. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. i. iv. 80 They parted from one another, and set forwards upon separate routes. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. iii. 28 It is impossible to conceive a rout of more grandeur than this famous road along the Mediterranean from Nice to Genoa. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. i. x. 113 They had gone by separate routes to separate ports. 1891 Times 1 Aug. 8/3 The collision occurred at 2.30 a.m. about four miles off Dover, right in the trading route. 1928 Travel Feb. 4 (advt.) A most unusual cruise—especially notable for the completeness of its route which includes several..little-known places. 1962 E. Roosevelt Autobiogr. II. xx. 157 Our route was given out beforehand, so that people could have an opportunity to see Their Majesties. 2002 Geist Winter 13/2 A row of tiny trees frozen into the snow and ice mark the route across. †b. The direction in which a ship sails. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > course ship ren1297 course1553 route?1568 voyage1581 caping1595 wakec1595 run1688 ?1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 52 Steir be the compas, and keip hir rowt. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. ii. 5 b The Captaine generall commaunded, that..they shuld every one make, and keepe, their roote or course to Cabo Verde. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. ii. xxx. f. 202^v The Mariners.., to be the better assured of their routes and courses on the sea, do deuide euery quarter of the Horizon into 8. seuerall windes. c. The designated course of a race. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > course or track coursec1320 race1612 piste1696 route1771 track1836 path1883 athletics track1952 parcours1971 1771 R. Berenger Hist. & Art Horsemanship I. 289 The route of the race was from the right wheeling to the left, round the extreme meta or terminus and then returning back to the same ground. 1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 2 Aug. 2/6 The route of the race was from the judges' boat..in the direction of Broad Sound, passing between the crotched buoy on Fawn Bar, and the Ram Head buoy, off Nahant. 1886 R. Black Horse-racing in France 362 The route was from the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, through the Bois de Boulogne, St. Cloud, La Marche, [etc.]. 1908 Times 25 July 8/2 The scene along the course of the Marathon route yesterday was one that will not easily be forgotten. 2008 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 27/1 In recent years, the race has gradually moved north from its traditional route. d. North American. A way or road by which post is regularly conveyed prior to being sorted and delivered; a postal route.mail, post, rural route: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > postal routes post line1791 route1792 mail road1818 rural route1852 1792 Deb. Congr. U.S. 10 Jan. (1849) 58 The route by which the mails are at present conveyed shall in no case be altered. 1821 Deb. Congr. U.S. 31 Dec. (1855) I. 47 Praying that the route of the mail from Savannah to Augusta..may not be altered. 1855 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 22 Feb. To the Postmaster General for the increase of mail service on route number 13,744 between Janesville and Madison. 1906 N. Robertson Hist. County of Bruce v. 64 On this route two post-offices in Bruce were established. 1977 J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family 32 The ferry was an important link on the Albany Post Road route which extended from the city of New York to the upper Hudson River community. 2004 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 19 Feb. a19 In 1673, the first postrider galloped off from New York on his way to Boston establishing the first major overland route in the American colonies. e. North American. = round n.¹ 24b(a). Cf. milk route n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a, paper route n. at paper n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > habitual round1603 beat1786 route1841 1841 Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 5 May 2/4 He succeeded in obtaining possession of a route for a morning penny paper. 1849 C. Mathews Moneypenny xiii. 119 Go upstairs, and tell Wages to give you the St. John's Park route. He'll fix your pay. 1892 Postal Rec. Jan. 29/1 One of our carriers, a man who has a ‘country route’, was surprised at Christmas in receiving from a person on his route a present. 1925 Winnipeg Free Press 28 Feb. 6/1 The boy told him he was going to help another boy with a newspaper route, and couldn't caddy any more. 1976 Washington Post 19 Apr. c14/4 (advt.) Routes are available in the metropolitan Washington area to aggressive persons who are experienced Route Sales people. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. i. 9 I was going to help my dad on his route before he took me to school. f. A highway, esp. in the United States. Frequently with following numeral. Cf. route nationale n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road great road1614 high road1620 main road1741 highway1837 traffic artery1845 trunk road1848 main-way1862 arterial road1886 primary roada1903 route1912 arterial1920 major road1930 spine road1961 1912 Michigan Manufacturer & Financial Rec. 30 Nov. 3/3 The through routes should be built and maintained by the state. 1924 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. viii. 9/7 Route 2 is the highway from Scranton Pa...to Montreal. 1933 R. Kipling Souvenirs of France i. 18 That was the Rhone Road, Route 7. 1946 B. Troup Get your Kicks on Route 66! (song) If you ever plan to motor west—Travel my way, take the highway that's the best.—Get your kicks on Route Sixty-Six! 1971 Pop. Mech. June 83 Three-digit numbers with the first figure odd denote spur routes—offshoots that may or may not connect with adjacent Interstates. 2006 Chesapeake Life Nov. 132/1 One night, a state trooper named Robert Burkhardt saw a ball of light near route 50—one mile outside of town. g. American Football. A specific course run by a pass receiver as part of a prearranged play. Frequently with preceding word or words indicating the direction or type of course. Cf. pattern n. 12. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres > pre-arranged route1919 pattern1949 man to man1971 1919 Boston Globe 8 Oct. 7/3 Each scored a touchdown, Horween via the end-run route. 1969 Chicago Tribune 28 Sept. ii. 3/1 He had the ability to get the ball to his receivers and they ran good routes. 1990 A. A. Berger Agitpop ii. 23 The quarterback may overthrow his receiver, or not notice a defensive back, or the receiver may run his route incorrectly. 2010 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 1 Feb. 15 Unless they're named Dan Marino and can fling a football to a tight end on a slant route, I don't think dolphins qualify as people. 2. a. In extended use. A series of steps taken to achieve something; a manner or method of proceeding; an abstract or notional course (corresponding to various senses of course n. III.). ΚΠ c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 48 Wo-so lokeþ, ne geþ he nauȝt derk, Ac lyȝt ine lyues route. a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd (Cambr.) (1930) l. 332 (MED) Thus shal þe game go aboute, And who so falys of þis route..Get hym drynk wher he will, He getys non here. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. i. 6 The narrow, rough, and unbeaten routs of Industry, and labour. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 377 This Emulation disposed him to take a different Rout to Fame. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 223 At ev'ry interview their route the same, The repetition makes attention lame. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 293 It seems to me there was pretty much regularity in the rout of the disease... From Paris it broke out in London, taking a western course until it reached this place; from hence it went into Cornwall. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV li. 30 It wearies out. So the end's gain'd, what signifies the route? 1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 374 Nature seems..to reach many of her ends by long circuitous routes. 1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. vii. xxiv. 291 In ‘acid’ plants..the decomposition of protein takes an alternative route to that already indicated for ‘amide’ plants. 1983 L. R. Miller & K. Gilman Horses at Work 34 (caption) Eagle's operation is powered exclusively by horses. Many horsefarmers are going this route. 2004 Independent 27 Oct. 30/4 The fact is, though, that this will be only one route to raising women's pay. †b. A regularly followed procedure; a routine. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine rote1581 route1725 routine1760 habituality1801 automatism1882 mechanicalism1903 autopilot1967 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Blood Those who use sick Persons only by a certain Rout, order them to be bled. 1784 Med. Observ. & Inq. VI. vi. 50 Fully convinced that it was in vain to pursue the usual route of practice. 1821 W. Hutchinson Diss. Infanticide (ed. 2) Pref. It is too completely without the common route of practice. c. With preceding noun: a manner or method of proceeding characterized by or typical of the thing or person specified. ΚΠ 1891 St. Paul (Minnesota) Daily News 8 Jan. 2/1 An attempt to use money for the benefit of Ingalls has been exposed and in time to prevent success by the bribery route. 1920 H. A. Cody Glen of High North xxi. 194 ‘We'll have to find some way, but the question is, how?’ ‘The gun-route might be the best,’ and Curly motioned significantly toward the rifle. 1977 Time 19 Dec. 12/2 The former Prime Minister..has chosen to write books and sell records rather than go the David Frost route. 2006 Review (Rio Tinto Group) June 10/3 Companies have to seek genuine industrial synergies in any merger and acquisition route they follow. 3. Military. An order directing troops to march from one place to another, indicating the course they are to follow. Later also: an order to depart for active service. Frequently in to give (also deliver, get, etc.) the route. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > [noun] > order to march route1707 marching orders1714 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 73 This Regiment, to shew his Lordship had no great mind to delay his march into Castile, had their route given them, the very same day they were mounted. 1711 Mem. Visct. Dundee 112 Thence march'd to Tourellers for Winter Quarters, where they received a Rout to march to Alsace. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ix. 68 This Letter was from his Captain, to acquaint him, that the Rout, as they call it, was arrived, and that they were to march within two Days. 1776 Let. 28 Mar. in Proc. Amer. Antiquatian Soc. (1881) Apr. 142 The QM Gen^l or his Assistant, will provide nine teams for each Reg^t and the Adjutant Gen^l will deliver the route and orders to Gen^l Sullivan. 1826 G. R. Gleig Subaltern iii Nor was it till the evening of the 27th that the long-expected route arrived. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxiv. 206 As transports were in plenty, they would get their route before the week was over. 1886 C. E. L. Riddell For Dick's Sake ii We are expecting to be sent on active service immediately, and..I don't care how soon we get the route. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 120 A feeling of..satisfaction possessed him when he got the route for Warbrok. 1904 J. L. Vaughan My Service Indian Army ix. 122 The Fifth received the route for Kohat, but I was privileged to accompany our wounded General. 1915 ‘A. Hilliers’ Demi-royal xv. 162 Ye will get the route in a jiffey, Doodles, for ye are wanted in the Peninsula. Phrases P1. column of route: a formation assumed by troops when marching, its organization being governed by tactical considerations, local terrain, the position of supply lines, etc.; the fact or state of being organized in such a formation. Cf. column of march n. at march n.⁵ 2b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > column narrow front1623 column1677 colonne1678 column of route1792 1792 Rules & Regulations for Formations His Majesty's Forces (ed. 2) iv. 347 No loud signals or even commands, or music or drums, can be used in columns of route. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at March His next care must be the arrangement of all its different component parts, with which he will form his column of route. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 179 A Column of Route is to proceed with as extensive a front as the road will permit. 1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War iv. 51 Here I made the men reform their divisions, and commence retiring slowly by fours in column of route. 1922 P. S. Bond & E. H. Crouch Tactics xxvi. 206 To provide for the security of a column of route..covering detachments are interposed between the main column and the..positions of the enemy. 1976 Broadcast Dec. 17/2 There can be few occupations so completely degrading as marching in column-of-route. 2008 Pembroke (Ont.) Observer (Nexis) 7 Oct. 3 The Brigade to be granted Freedom of the City marches toward city hall, in column of route. P2. Chiefly U.S. (originally regional). to go the route: (a) Horse Racing (of a horse) to hold out until the end of a race; (b) (more generally) to go the distance; to go all the way; (c) Baseball to pitch for an entire game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > pitch to go the route1875 screwball1933 the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > follow up, out, or through [verb (intransitive)] > to the end to tug it outa1641 to go all the way1799 to go the route1926 1875 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 Nov. 3/5 The dam of Fannie Hall being by Belmont is a pretty good guarantee that she will go the route, with a brush left at the finish. 1899 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 11 Dec. 8/3 Hudson is considered in line for the lightweight championship and..he went the route, 20 rounds, with Jack Daly..recently. 1913 Chicago Record-Herald 16 Mar. viii. 1/5 This was the first complete battle Cicotte has pitched, and he was watched closely to see if he could go the route. 1918 Chicago Sunday Tribune 9 June 25/1 She had undertaken to ‘go the route in this piano thing’. 1926 J. Black You can't Win xvi. 230 If a Chinese doesn't like you he will keep away from you; if he does like you he will go the route. 1963 I. Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service iv. 45 She made love with the fervour and expertness of a girl who, in the American phrase, had ‘gone the route’. 1974 Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 11/3 Steve Rogers went the route, giving up six hits. 1990 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 5 May e8 My choice is Thirty Six Red, the winner of the Wood Memorial, who has shown that he can carry the weight and go the route. 1997 B. Geoffrion & S. Fischler Boom Boom vii. 90 The odds makers..established us as two and a half to one favourites to go the route. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. route book n. ΚΠ 1818 Q. Rev. Jan. 378 From one of the travelling Moors, he obtained..a route-book. 1910 (title) Route book for the British Isles. 1997 Amer. Alpine Jrnl. 22 338 Paul Ross, following a British tradition, kept a new route book in a local mountaineering store. route card n. ΚΠ 1857 G. P. R. James Leonora d'Orco xv. 53/1 At Belgiojoso.., you will find the route-card, as far as Bologna, with every day's march laid down. 1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 39 British rallies require only the accurate plotting of six-figure map references plus the ability to..read from a simple route-card. 2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 182 Drivers have no idea where they're going until they get a route card at the next checkpoint. route check n. ΚΠ 1894 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst.1893 19 546 (bibliogr. ref.) Description and Theory of a Route Check (controlêur de route). 1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iii. 37 Route checks, or passage controls, are also a feature of the majority of rallies. 2006 T. Good Need to Know (2007) ix. 137 Bethune was in the left seat at the time, getting a route check in order to qualify as plane commander. route form n. ΚΠ 1845 Law Times 29 Mar. 497/2 It [sc. a forged pass] was defective in the omission of..the title..of the first or certificate form, the ‘direction for filling up’ at the end of the second or route form, [etc.]. 1888 J. Pennell & E. R. Pennell Sent. Journey 99 The route-form was passed from one to the other. 1994 P. A. J. Waddington Liberty & Order iv. 77 The ‘route form’ was..a standardized letter on official headed note paper that contained details of the agreed route. route number n. ΚΠ 1881 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 6 May 3/4 In issuing tickets from the foreign book, the baggage agent..will be very particular to write in the form or route number of passage ticket. 1924 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. viii. 9/7 The route number is painted in figures five inches high. 1973 D. Westheimer Going Public iv. 64 He memorized the route numbers of the buses. 1990 Mountain Nov.–Dec. 47/2 The route numbers in blue are difficult to spot in diagrams. b. Objective. route-finding n. ΚΠ 1893 C. Wilson Mountaineering iii. 13 The man who will go often enough..will assuredly gain some practical and useful knowledge of hill-walking, route-finding, and rock-scrambling. 1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 June 1321/1 Besides route-finding and obstacle detection, sight also helps in maintaining poise or balance. 2006 Church Times 17 Mar. 25/3 Vital equipment included..a wrist-compass (essential for route-finding). route planning n. ΚΠ 1898 Cycling 23 Apr. 362/1 In spite of the notice at the head of ‘Routes and Replies’ that I do not undertake foreign route planning, I am constantly in receipt of such requests. 1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 51/1 The Central Electricity Generating Board..is constantly faced with route-planning problems. 2007 D. Atkinson Bolivia (Bradt Travel Guides) iv. 116 [The map] covers the entire range from Illampu to Illimani and provides an excellent big picture for route planning. route-proving n. ΚΠ 1941 Times 27 Nov. 3/1 The Capetown Clipper arrived here to-day, completing successfully a route-proving flight..to the Belgian Congo and back. 2007 New Yorker 2 Apr. 30/2 It was on a promotional and ‘route-proving’ trip organized by Airbus and Lufthansa. C2. route army n. now historical any of several units within nationalist and communist Chinese armies in the first half of the 20th cent.Usually preceded by a number designating the particular unit. [After Chinese lùjūn large military unit in use between the Chinese Revolution and Civil War ( < lù unit within army, similar to a regiment (a1900), larger tactical unit composed of several divisions (a1920), specific use of lù road, path, route + jūn army); in the English rendering of the Chinese word, lù has apparently been taken in its more basic meaning ‘road, path, route’.] ΚΠ 1927 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. 1/2 Pa Yi-chih, secretary of the headquarters of ‘the eastern route army’, namely, General Chiang Kai-shek's army. 1971 ‘A. Burgess’ Inn of Sixth Happiness xiii. 147 He had been an officer of the Nineteenth Route Army which, with bitter gallantry, had so bloodily repulsed them. 2006 B. M. Patenaude Wealth of Ideas 82 By an arrangement reached between Chungking and Yenan in late 1937, the Red Army was now redesignated as the Eighth Route Army. route column n. = column of route at Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1869 S. P. Bates Hist. Pennsylvania Volunteers II. 528 The First and part of the Second Brigades, which were in advance, in route column, had crossed the ford at Bristoe. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 6 It was a whole battalion..emerging from the Place de Ville in close route column. 1997 P. Cozzens Darkest Days of War ix. 103 The Seventeenth Iowa was in route column on the road. route-goer n. U.S. Sport a person who or animal which goes the distance; (originally Horse Racing) a horse able to hold out until the end of a race; (later Baseball) a pitcher who pitches for an entire game; cf. to go the route at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > pitcher pitcher1845 relief pitcher1884 southpaw1887 side-wheeler1890 moundsman1906 pretzel bender1908 starter1911 sidewinder1913 low-ball pitcher1915 fastballer1924 route-goer1924 reliever1925 hurler1926 fireballer1928 spitballer1928 screwballer1929 stopper1948 closer1980 middleman1985 1924 Washington Post 28 Apr. (Sports) 2/3 Old Faithful is a natural route-goer... If he doesn't break down..he will prove the one to beat. 1939 Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.) 15 Sept. 15/1 This corner picks Galento to finish on top, but only it he can do it in six rounds. If he lets Lou stay around longer than that, the blond belter is the better route-goer. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 3/1 The Philadelphia 76ers had five route-goers..while Hal Greer missed only one game. 2000 New Hampsh. Sunday News (Nexis) 11 June With first base open, Exeter elected to pitch to Nick Manolis and route-goer Jason Frotton retired him on a foul pop to the pitcher. route-going adj. U.S. Sport that goes the distance; spec. (a) (Horse Racing) (of a horse) able to hold out until the end of a race; (b) (Baseball) (of a pitcher) that pitches for an entire game; (of a pitcher's performance) characterized by this; cf. to go the route at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [adjective] > types of pitching sidearm1890 no-hit1898 low ball1915 blooper1937 bloop1947 away1950 route-going1950 split-finger1980 1950 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 23 Apr. 13/4 Five of the best route-going horses..will run up for the $350 in premiums in the offing. 1957 Baseball Digest Sept. 23/2 Tighe..insisted..that Bunning would become a route-going starter if handled correctly. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 2- h/4 Doug DeCinces and Lee May each hit three-run homers to support 39-year old Mike Cuellar's first route-going performance of the season. 2002 B. Hooley Ohio State's Unforgettables 156/2 What's a 15-inning game when you've already pitched a 16-inning, route-going effort in a must-win over Michigan? route map n. a map containing details of a route; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > planning a course of action > plan of intended course of action plan of campaign1780 route map1816 action plan1889 end run1902 strategy1944 game plan1957 scenario1962 the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map mappa mundia1387 mappemondea1393 table1610 Mercator's chart1645 Peutingerian tablea1657 Mercator1694 hemisphere1706 Peutinger1731 road map1741 geological map1798 route map1816 ordnance map1828 outline map1836 contour map1862 index map1869 hypsographical map1881 soil map1898 wheel-map1899 strip map1903 distribution map1947 worm's-eye map1964 topo1970 1816 in tr. Trav. Ali Bey I. p. xlii (caption) Route Map of the journies of Ali Bey in the isle of Cyprus, and from Cairo to Constantinople. 1883 Science 2 86/1 A route-map of Russia in Europe. 1925 R. W. Child Battling Criminal p. v To seek and set forth..the main truth as to the criminal's paradise we have tolerated in America and a route map of the immediate steps good citizenship will take when it determines to end the scandal. 1957 Amer. Motorcyclist June 32/2 You will receive your instructions and route map at the start. 1985 A. Gilks & G. Segal China & Arms Trade ii. 6 While there may be some broad objectives of Chinese foreign policy..there is no route map to those ends. 2004 New Yorker 5 July 39/3 She bought a BART commuter ticket and studied the route map. route marker n. something that delineates or indicates a route. ΚΠ 1897 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1896 (U.S. Patents Office) 748/1 (table) Bicycle route-marker. 1925 N.Y. Times 5 Aug. 8/3 The shield of the United States was adopted today as a model for the outline of route markers for the system of national highways. 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xv. 148 Plenty of people cross various borders quite unintentionally during snowstorms, when they can't see the route-markers. 2003 Amer. Motorcyclist Feb. 39/2 On our side of the tracks, there's clearly a route marker pointing west, the way we want to go. route master n. (a) a person who is responsible for the route of a procession, race, etc.; (b) (in form Routemaster) a type of double-decker bus, typically having its engine at the front and an open platform at the rear for passengers to enter or exit (a proprietary name in the United Kingdom).Routemaster buses, associated esp. with London Transport, were built by Associated Equipment Company between 1954 and 1968. ΚΠ 1900 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 23 Oct. 5/7 Nothing that has occurred within living memory has..thrown upon the City officials and route masters such a tremendous burden of responsibility. 1954 Manch. Guardian 24 Sept. 8/5 A prototype of the London ‘bus of the future’ which is to be called, in the American fashion, the ‘Routemaster’. 1974 Jrnl. Transport Econ. & Policy 8 239 London Transport's front-engined 30-foot-long Routemasters have the same seating capacity (72) as their rear-engined Atlanteans. 2000 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 4 Sept. 4 a The Grand Prix's route master has personally walked and measured the time trial course from its starting point in Lynn Creek Park. 2008 S. Faulks Devil may Care ix. 117 A red double-decker bus—a London Routemaster—went slowly past, leaving a cloud of black diesel exhaust. route-mile n. a mile-long section of a route maintained or operated by a certain business, government department, etc.; esp. a mile-long section of a transportation route. ΚΠ 1880 Sixth Ann. Rep. Board Railroad Commissioners (Iowa) 350 Route 27,012, between Clinton, Iowa, and La Crescent, Minn.;..$70.97 per route mile per year. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 824/2 The [railway] rebuilding process is constant... In Europe the average route-mile capital is £27,036. 1959 J. R. Meyer Econ. Competition in Transportation Industry (1976) iv. 88 Geographical [trucking] firm size as measured by number of route miles operated. 1989 Network World 13 Feb. 6/5 WillTel's network..consists of 6,400 route miles of fiber lines and 800 route miles of microwave links. 1991 Mod. Railways Apr. 188/1 Its full proposed network would total about 18,500 route-miles. 2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. ii. 28 Many of these miles lie in parallel, to support the local/express system—only 230 distinct ‘route miles’ exist. route mileage n. the extent in miles of the transportation routes maintained or operated by a certain business, government department, etc. ΚΠ 1885 Hist. Railway Mail Service (U.S. Govt. Printing Office) 72 The last annual report (1884) showed a total route mileage of 359,530 miles. 1962 Observer 25 Mar. 1/5 Route-mileage is the length of routes, as distinct from the length of individual sets of tracks. British Railways cover about 18,500 route-miles. 2009 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 2 Oct. 10 The company will not be taking low floor buses off other better performing routes.., especially since their route mileage is peppered with traffic calming measures. route planner n. (originally) a person who plans a route or routes, esp. as a job; (now also) a software package, website, etc., designed to assist a person in planning a route or routes. ΚΠ 1918 S. V. Norton Motor Truck as Aid to Business Profits ix. 137 It is seldom possible to arrange routes which will work out as accurately as that—but how nearly can he come to it? That is the problem of the route planner. 1988 Guardian 27 Oct. 29/7 Autoroute is..built on a database of Ordnance Survey maps. It's a route planner. Tell it where you want to go: the program displays a map and prints directions for drivers to follow. 1999 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 27 168/1 The BAM has been used extensively by aircrews, flight schedulers, and low-level route planners since its implementation. 2008 Bicycling June 82 The..online route planner makes navigating Berlin by bike even easier. route proficiency n. the proficiency of a pilot in flying a particular route. ΚΠ 1950 N.Y. Times 18 Apr. 55/8 We believe it would be feasible to give route proficiency checks in it [sc. a flight simulator]. 1972 FAA Air Safety Regulations (U.S. Senate Commerce Comm., 92nd Congr., 1st Sess.) 34 Part 123 has crew proficiency requirements, but none for route proficiency. 1996 Ann. Rep. S. Afr. Dept. Transport 1994–1995 23/1 Random route proficiency checks were conducted on both national and international routes of the major carriers. route sales n. North American the action of selling goods by working a route (in sense 1e). ΚΠ 1913 Milk Reporter (U.S.) Dec. 4/2 (advt.) Chicago Route Sales Department 132–138 W. Lake St. 1945 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 1 June 19/5 (advt.) Salesman wanted for route sales and service work; knowledge of automotive trade preferred. 1989 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 29 Apr. c34/7 (advt.) If you enjoy working with a variety of people..you should consider a career in route sales. route salesman n. North American a salesman who works a particular route (in sense 1e); cf. route man n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > salesman working particular route route man1858 route salesman1892 1892 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 7 Aug. 2/4 Wm. Ripley, the popular northern route salesman.., came in for the regular Sunday visit with his family. 1937 Job Descr. Laundry Industry 253 Route-Man, Route Driver, Route-Salesman... Drives a Delivery Truck over an established route to collect washing from and deliver it to customers' houses. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 33/7 (advt.) Route Salesman..required by supplier of industrial garments. 2006 T. Sant Giants of Sales Pref. p. x My father..quickly rose from route salesman to ‘special salesman’. route salesperson n. North American a salesperson who works a particular route (in sense 1e). ΚΠ 1942 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 22 Aug. 6/8 (advt.) Jewel Tea Co. has opening for route salesperson, man or woman. Hutchinson territory. 1965 Winnipeg Free Press 14 Aug. 35/2 (advt.) Bright young man..to supervise circulation routes... Applicant must be able to take charge of route sales people. 2002 J. Brescoll & R. M. Dahm Opportunities in Sales Careers iii. 37 The route salesperson has varied responsibilities to the customers receiving specific goods. This seller may serve dairies, bakeries. laundries, [etc.]. route sheet n. †(a) British a written report of recent crimes and wanted persons that is circulated among police patrol officers (obsolete); (b) a piece of paper recording details of a route; (c) U.S. an itinerary for a touring company or artist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > circuit > itinerary route sheet1840 1840 Times 21 July 6/6 In consequence of having received information of the robbery by the route sheet sent by the City Police on the night of the robbery, he had made enquiries, and had apprehended the prisoner. 1853 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Hand-bks. Ireland Introd. p. vi A route-sheet, plentifully illustrated by cuts,..will be a useful and agreeable associate in the railway carriage. 1863 Observer 15 Nov. 8/2 A police inspector recognised the prisoner as being described in the route sheet as ‘wanted’. 1909 Federal Reporter 169 1010 The production of certain burlesque shows..according to a schedule or route sheet, which your orator was to prepare each year, in conjunction with other theaters in other cities. 1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues xiv. 195 Each one..had been copying other pluggers' borrowed route-sheets and submitting them to me as evidence of work done by themselves. 2005 Cycling Plus Apr. 9/2 All the Challenge Rides are self led with route sheets and include refreshment stops. route step n. Military (chiefly U.S.) a way of marching in which troops remain in formation but are not required to keep time, carry weapons in a prescribed way, or (usually) maintain silence; also as int., as an order to march in this way. ΚΠ 1807 tr. Syst. Discipline & Manœuvres Infantry 103 in W. Duane Amer. Mil. Libr. (1809) I. He will observe to make half those that are in the rear form into line, before he commands the route step. 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 281/1 Troops in crossing were given the order, ‘Route step’, as the oscillation of the cadence step or trotting horse is dangerous to the stability of a bridge of any kind. 1928 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 4 July 8/7 The order came to move forward at rout step. 1997 N. Johnson My Brother's Keeper viii. 67 Josh started out with a steady cadence, then stopped and let the men move along at their own pace, in route step, slower, easier. route taxi n. chiefly Caribbean a privately owned car or minibus that carries paying passengers along a fixed course. ΚΠ 1958 Soviet Lit. 9 47 The big Moscow-Vladimir route taxi at last escaped the stony labyrinth of the city. 1960 A. Niehoff & J. Niehoff East Indians in W. Indies iv. 40 They [sc. East Indians] are often regarded as pinch-penny passengers on the route taxis. 2001 R. Carrington Every Bitter Thing Sweet 52 She climbed into one of the route taxis that patiently waited outside the square to be filled. routeway n. a line of travel or passage. ΚΠ 1880 Times 10 Sept. 8/2 Passing the old route way the smoke was lighter. 1932 Economica 37 321 How far has the river actually provided a ‘through’ route-way from the Black Sea towards the upper Rhine? 1980 H. Clout Agric. in France on Eve of Railway Age iv. 50 The Allier valley forms a fine example of a natural routeway cutting through otherwise mountainous terrain. 2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 181/2 Because of its relative ease of access, the area has seen the building of some of Cheshire's most important routeways. route zero n. (in allusion to sense 1f) any (physical or notional) road or course leading to no useful location; cf. the road to nowhere at nowhere n. and pron. 3. ΚΠ 1937 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 Mar. 21/5 Work on the stretch of road grimly known as ‘Route Zero’ started about 50 years ago.... To date just 15 miles have been completed. 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed v. 41 You haven't fooled me. You're on Route Zero. You're a user—an addict. 1983 M. West World is made of Glass 50 Lose that [sc. my goodwill] and you are on Route Zero, a one-way street to nowhere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † routen.² Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as rout n.⁵ (although that is first attested later, and is apparently restricted to Scotland, although it should be noted that Skelton was a northerner), or perhaps an error for coute , variant of coot n.¹ (which would fit with the alliteration pattern of the surrounding lines), although coote also appears in the same list of birds. N.E.D. (1909) suggests that it might be a transmission error for rook n.¹, but there is no attested variant of this word with -ou- , and roke appears nearby in the same list. Compare also the following emendation suggesting that the initial letters of route and kowgh were erroneously transposed. This is problematic for various reasons: it would considerably antedate the first securely confirmed use of ruff n.⁶ (which is not attested in spellings with -ough or -owgh ), it would posit an unattested long-vowel variant of knot n.², and it also presupposes a major emendation (with the further insertion of an n) of route:1843 A. Dyce in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. II. 131 The Rev. J. Mitford suggests that the right reading is ‘The knout and the rowgh’—i.e. the knot and the ruff. Obsolete. A kind of bird (not identified: see etymology note). ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.iii^v The churlysshe chowgh The route and the kowgh. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018). routev. Brit. /ruːt/, U.S. /rut/, /raʊt/ Inflections: Present participle routing, routeing; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: route n.¹ Etymology: < route n.¹ Compare Old French, Middle French router to travel (see rout v.⁶). Compare earlier routing n.⁸ Compare also earlier re-route v.In British English, the form routeing is sometimes preferred for the present participle; compare routing n.⁸ 1. a. transitive. To designate (a ticket) for use on a certain route. Frequently with prepositions. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [verb (transitive)] > mark a ticket for a specific route route1881 1881 Rules & Regulations Guidance Station Masters (London & North-Western Railway) 86 To other passengers the old set of tickets, routed viâ Caledonian Railway, is to be issued. 1890 Whitby Gaz. 21 Nov. 3/5 Passenger tickets used on the Scarborough and Whitby Railway.., whether such tickets be routed or not. 1938 Rotarian Apr. 61/2 Most tickets can be routed via Los Angeles for no extra fare. 1996 J. Brown Hong Kong & Macau: Rough Guide (ed. 3) 3/2 Most of the specialist agents will also be able to sell you a Round-the-World ticket, routed out of London. b. transitive. To send by or along a certain route; to plan or delineate a route for; to direct. Frequently with prepositions. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > send by specific route re-route1869 route1889 society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > cause to be conveyed or send > send by specific route route1889 1889 Pacific Reporter 21 916/1 It was customary..to deliver goods routed over the Denver & New Orleans road to the Denver & Rio Grande road for transportation. 1893 M. H. Cushing Story of our Post Office 235 Here are the carriers themselves, engaged in ‘routing’ the mail. 1926 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Aug. 6 Complaints were routed past the complaint department to the President's office. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. (1966) xvi. 567 Major through-traffic streams must be routed around residential areas. 1991 Independent 11 Oct. 2/6 Routing the link through Stratford should boost employment and development in east London. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Dec. b7/1 The aircraft..was routed near the North Pole to save about 2,000 gallons of carbon-emitting fuel. 2. transitive. Electronics and Computing. To direct (a signal, telephone call, data packet, etc.) over a particular circuit or path, or to a particular location. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (transitive)] > transmit or relay > communicate by specific route route1899 1899 Evening Post (N.Y.) 28 Jan. 1/1 Messages [sc. telegraphs] from the United States are generally routed as follows. 1920 Pacific Reporter 186 935/1 The Addington subscribers made no complaint because of this refusal to route the calls. 1946 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 2 103 These signals, routed through the program switches. 1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers i. 6 By means of electronic switching devices a word is routed to the correct address in the store. 1973 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 2/1 The dialling code for Rome is 010 39 6. The digits 010 route the call to the international automatic exchange in London. 1990 Network World 8 Oct. 83/1 A..protocol that defines how frames of data are assembled and how they are routed through a packet network. 2005 M. Zalewski Silence on Wire ix. 115 Systems involved in routing traffic..read the information provided on the IP layer to decide how to relay the data farther down its path. 3. transitive. = schedule v. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [verb (transitive)] > time, appoint, or set a time for > arrange time of arrival of a train, person, etc. time1861 route1903 1903 H. B. Smith in Rep. Adjutant-Gen. State Indiana 1903 (1905) 104 The various companies of my command, which were routed to arrive at different hours, all reached camp on July 26. 1916 Variety 22 Oct. 12/2 Rud Hynicka's show..will not play the Star and Garter next week as routed. 1932 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses xiii. 253 Deducing from time-tables, Dinny hypothetically routed Joan to arrive at six-thirty on Thursday evening. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?c1225n.²a1529v.1881
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