route

Plural: routes

Noun

an established line of travel or access
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
A course or way which is traveled or passed.
A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
A race longer than one mile.
A path that has been secured by a railway signalling system for the passage of a train and locked to prevent any conflicting train movements from taking place.

Verb

Verb Forms: routed, routing, routes

To send or direct along a specific course.
send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
send via a specific route
divert in a specified direction
To direct or divert along a particular course.
to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
To send (information) through a router.
Eye dialect spelling of root.

Examples

All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
Follow Route 49 out of town.
Here is a map of our delivery routes.
She carefully routed her tiles to create two new words simultaneously.
The Route 4 bus will arrive on 5th St. at Robinson Ave at 3:30.
The route was used so much that it formed a rut.
We live near the bus route.
You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta [via] (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route.

Synonyms

itinerary, path, road

Scrabble Score: 5

route: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
route: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
route: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

route: valid Words With Friends Word