English Dictionary: Routing | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for Routing | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rout \Rout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Routed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Routing}.] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon. Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
routing a router, pronounced /row't*/. In the USA a {router}, pronounced /row't*/, is also a network device that performs "routing". In the UK, the network device is pronounced /roo't*/ and what it does is spelled "{routeing}". (2002-07-31) |