route
Meanings
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
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta [via] (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route.
Scrabble Score: 5
route is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordroute is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
route is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
route is a valid Words With Friends word