单词 | route |
释义 | Word Frequency route(ruːt, US English raʊt) noun 1. the choice of roads taken to get to a place 2. a regular journey travelled 3. (capital) US a main road between cities Route 66 4. mountaineering the direction or course taken by a climb 5. medicine the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection oral route verbWord forms: routes, routing, routeing or routed (transitive) ▶ USAGE When forming the present participle or verbal noun from the verb to route, it is preferable to retain the e in order to distinguish the word from routing, the present participle or verbal noun from rout1, to defeat or rout2, to dig, rummage: the routeing of buses from the city centre to the suburbs. The spelling routing in this sense is, however, sometimes encountered, esp in American English6. to plan the route of; send by a particular route Derived forms routable (ˈroutable) or routeable (ˈrouteable) adjective Word origin C13: from Old French rute, from Vulgar Latin rupta via (unattested), literally: a broken (established) way, from Latin ruptus broken, from rumpere to break, burst |
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