route
Other forms: routes; routed; routing
A route is a way for travel or movement, the path from point A to point B. A route can also be the method used for achieving a particular result, like going to school and working hard is your route to success.
Route comes from an Old French word, rute, “road,” “way,” or “path” and the Latin rupta, “broken way” or “beaten way.” A route can be a highway, like Route 66, or all the places you pass through on the way somewhere, like using a map to find the shortest route. As a verb, route means "to send people or things on a particular course," like detour signs that route you through unfamiliar streets or a package that is routed through Cleveland on its way to you.
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an established line of travel or accessexamples:Northwest Passagea water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906)types:feeder linea branching path off of a main transportation line (especially an airline)main linethe principal route of a transportation systemdata track, track(computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading dataair lane, airway, flight path, skywaya designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to anotherapproach pattern, pattern, traffic patternthe path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airportflight paththe path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the airbus routethe route regularly followed by a passenger busline of flightthe path along which a freely moving object travels through the airline of marchthe route along which a column advancescelestial orbit, orbitthe (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about anotherbeelinethe most direct routecircuitan established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel tocrosscuta diagonal pathline of firethe path of a missile discharged from a firearmfairwaythe usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waterstrade routea route followed by traders (usually in caravans)approach, approach path, glide path, glide slopethe final path followed by an aircraft as it is landingholding patternthe flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to landgeosynchronous orbita circular orbit around the Earth having a period of 24 hourseast-west directionin a direction parallel with lines of latitudenorth-south directionin a direction parallel with lines of longitudeqiblathe direction of the Kaaba toward which Muslims turn for their daily prayerstype of:linea spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
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an open way (generally public) for travel or transportationsynonyms: roadtypes:causewaya road that is raised above water or marshland or sandclearwaya road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown)corduroya road made of logs laid crosswisedetour, roundabout waya roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)post roada road over which mail is carriedroadwaya road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travelside roada minor road branching off of a main roadskid roada road made of logs on which freshly cut timber can be hauledspeedwayroad where high speed driving is allowedthoroughfarea public road from one place to anotherturnoffa side road where you can turn offarterial roada major or main routearterya major thoroughfare that bears important trafficbeltway, bypass, ring road, ringwaya highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the centercarriagewayone of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanesdivided highway, dual carriagewaya highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directionsexpressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruwaya broad highway designed for high-speed trafficinterstate, interstate highwayone of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United Statesportageoverland track between navigable waterwaysstreeta thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildingsstreetthe part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles traveltraila path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly countrytype of:wayany artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
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send via a specific route
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divert in a specified directiontype of:divertsend on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
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send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
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