route : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: route	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for route
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
route n an established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary] an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation Synonym(s): road, route v send documents or materials to appropriate destinations send via a specific route divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rout \Rout\, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See {Rupture}, {reave}, and cf. {Rote} repetition of forms, {Route}. In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.] [Formerly spelled also {route}.] 1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] [bd]A route of ratones [rats].[b8] --Piers Plowman. [bd]A great solemn route.[b8] --Chaucer. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. --Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser. 2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser. The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak. Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton. 3. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete. thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. --pope. 4. (Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof. --Wharton. 5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. [bd]At routs and dances.[b8] --Landor. {To put to rout}, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Route \Route\ (r[oomac]t [or] rout; 277), n. [OE. & F. route, OF. rote, fr. L. rupta (sc. via), fr. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break; hence, literally, a broken or beaten way or path. See {Rout}, and cf. {Rut} a track.] The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. Wide through the furzy field their route they take. --Gay.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
route /root/ The sequence of {hosts}, {routers}, {bridges}, {gateways}, and other devices that network traffic takes, or could take, from its source to its destination. As a verb, to determine the link down which to send a {packet}, that will minimise its total journey time according to some {routeing algorithm}. You can find the route from your computer to another using the program {traceroute} on {Unix} or tracert on {Microsoft Windows}. (2001-05-26)