route
/ɹut/ noun B2- A course or way which is traveled or passed. · The route was used so much that it formed a rut.· You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles.
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. · We live near the bus route.· Here is a map of our delivery routes.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway. · Follow Route 49 out of town.
- 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.
Plural routes
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It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay--Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, etc., are sufficiently known.
In talking over their route the evening before, Mrs.
Our route was certainly a singular one.
“Aldgate, where the body was found, is considerably past the station London Bridge, which would be his route to Woolwich.”
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