route
♦♦ route /r'uːt/ (routes routing routed)
pronounced /r'uːt/or /r'aʊt/in American English.
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A route is a way from one place to another.
...the most direct route to the town centre...
All escape routes were blocked by armed police...
2 [N-COUNT] oft supp N
A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly.
...the main shipping routes to Japan.
3 [N-IN-NAMES] N num
In the United States, Route is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities.
...the Broadway-Webster exit on Route 580.
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Your route is the series of visits you make to different people or places, as part of your job. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use round, rounds)
He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route...
5 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
You can refer to a way of achieving something as a route.
Researchers are trying to get at the same information through an indirect route...
= road
6 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv, be V-ed prep/adv
If vehicles, goods, or passengers are routed in a particular direction, they are made to travel in that direction.
Double-stack trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks...
Approaching cars will be routed into two lanes.
7 [PHRASE] oft PHR to/from/for n
En route to a place means on the way to that place. En route is sometimes spelled on route in non-standard English.
They have arrived in London en route to the United States...
One of the bags was lost en route.
8 [PHRASE] oft PHR to n/-ing
Journalists sometimes use en route when they are mentioning an event that happened as part of a longer process or before another event.
The German set three tournament records and equalled two others en route to grabbing golf's richest prize.
9 [PHRASE] go inflects
If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished. (AM)
They have gone the route, in many cases, of just big-big bowls, big statues, big masks, big everything.en route /'ɒn r'uːt/
see routepa|per route (paper routes)
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A paper route is the same as a paper round. (AM)route map (route maps)
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A route map is a map that shows the main roads in a particular area or the main routes used by buses, trains and other forms of transport in a particular area.
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If you describe one thing as a route map for another thing, you mean that it provides a model showing the best way to achieve or describe it.
Nowhere could you find a better route map of the troubles of Northern Ireland than in the articles of The Independent's David McKittrick.trade route (trade routes)
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A trade route is a route, often covering long distances, that is used by traders.
pronounced /r'uːt/or /r'aʊt/in American English.
1 [N-COUNT]
A route is a way from one place to another.
...the most direct route to the town centre...
All escape routes were blocked by armed police...
2 [N-COUNT] oft supp N
A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly.
...the main shipping routes to Japan.
3 [N-IN-NAMES] N num
In the United States, Route is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities.
...the Broadway-Webster exit on Route 580.
4 [N-COUNT]
Your route is the series of visits you make to different people or places, as part of your job. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use round, rounds)
He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route...
5 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
You can refer to a way of achieving something as a route.
Researchers are trying to get at the same information through an indirect route...
= road
6 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv, be V-ed prep/adv
If vehicles, goods, or passengers are routed in a particular direction, they are made to travel in that direction.
Double-stack trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks...
Approaching cars will be routed into two lanes.
7 [PHRASE] oft PHR to/from/for n
En route to a place means on the way to that place. En route is sometimes spelled on route in non-standard English.
They have arrived in London en route to the United States...
One of the bags was lost en route.
8 [PHRASE] oft PHR to n/-ing
Journalists sometimes use en route when they are mentioning an event that happened as part of a longer process or before another event.
The German set three tournament records and equalled two others en route to grabbing golf's richest prize.
9 [PHRASE] go inflects
If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished. (AM)
They have gone the route, in many cases, of just big-big bowls, big statues, big masks, big everything.en route /'ɒn r'uːt/
see routepa|per route (paper routes)
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A paper route is the same as a paper round. (AM)route map (route maps)
1 [N-COUNT]
A route map is a map that shows the main roads in a particular area or the main routes used by buses, trains and other forms of transport in a particular area.
2 [N-COUNT]
If you describe one thing as a route map for another thing, you mean that it provides a model showing the best way to achieve or describe it.
Nowhere could you find a better route map of the troubles of Northern Ireland than in the articles of The Independent's David McKittrick.trade route (trade routes)
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A trade route is a route, often covering long distances, that is used by traders.