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route
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, Ireland)
- IPA(key): /?u?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- (General American)
- IPA(key): /?u?t/, /?a?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t, -a?t
- (General Australian)
- IPA(key): /???t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- (Canada)
- IPA(key): /?ut/
- Rhymes: -ut
- Homophones: root, rute (/?u?t/); rout (/?a?t/)
Etymology 1
From Middle English route, borrowed from Old French route, rote (“road, way, path”) (compare modern French route), from Latin (via) rupta (“(road) opened by force”), from rumpere viam "to open up a path". As a Chinese administrative division, a semantic loan from Chinese ? (lù).
Noun
route (plural routes)
- A course or way which is traveled or passed.
- A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
- A road or path; often specifically a highway.
- (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
- 2010, Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, pages 156-7:
- If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route. […] Another route is to have a programmatic investment strategy […] . Rolex has taken this route […]
- 2010, Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, ?ISBN, pages 156-7:
- (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
- (computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
Synonyms
- (Chinese administrative division): lu, circuit, province
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routing or (UK) routeing, simple past and past participle routed)
- (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
- (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
- (computing, transitive) To send (information) through a router.
Derived terms
- reroute
- router
Translations
See also
- (Internet) bridge
- (Internet) LAN
- (Internet) WAN
Etymology 2
Verb
route
- Eye dialect spelling of root.
Further reading
- route in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- route in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Toure, outer, outre, outré, rouet, utero-
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French route, from Old French route, from Latin rupta (via).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ru.t?/
- Hyphenation: rou?te
- Rhymes: -ut?
Noun
route f (plural routes or routen, diminutive routetje n)
- route, course, way (particular pathway or direction one travels)
- road, route
Derived terms
- fietsroute
- marsroute
- routebeschrijving
- route-informatie
- routekaart
- routeplanner
- routenavigatie
- vaarroute
- wandelroute
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: rute
French
Etymology
From Middle French route, from Old French route, rote, from Latin rupta via.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ut/
- Rhymes: -ut
Noun
route f (plural routes)
- road (sometimes route like "Route 66")
- route, way, path
Derived terms
Further reading
- “route” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- outre, outré, troue, troué
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French, Old French route, rote, Anglo-French rute "troop, band"
Noun
route (plural routes)
- route
- a group of people
- band, company
- '14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Prologue, 1-3
- Whan that the Knight hadde thus his tale ytold
- In all the route nas ther yong ne old
- That he ne saide it was a noble storye
- '14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Prologue, 1-3
- crowd, populace
- throng; gang, with connotation of illicit activity
- band, company
- the proper condition of something
Etymology 2
From Old English hrutan, "to make a noise; snore" Compare Old Norse or Middle Dutch ruten, ruyten, Old Swedish ruta. For senses 4 and 5 compare Old Icelandic hrjota "to burst, spring forth."
Verb
route
- first-person singular present indicative of routen
Etymology 3
Converted from the noun route. Compare Old French aroter.
Verb
route
- first-person singular present indicative of routen
Norman
Etymology
From Old French route, from Latin rupta (via).
Noun
route f (plural routes)
- (Jersey) road
- (Jersey, nautical, of a watercraft) course
Old French
Alternative forms
- rote
- route
Etymology
From Latin rupta (via).
Noun
route f (oblique plural routes, nominative singular route, nominative plural routes)
- route (course or way which is traveled or passed)
Synonyms
- chemin
- curs
- voie
Descendants
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career
English
Etymology
Mid 16th century, from French carrière (a road or racecourse), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carr?ria based on Latin carrus 'wheeled vehicle'. Alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera ("road"), from Late Latin carr?ria.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?????/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?????/
- Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Korea
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
career (plural careers)
- One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
- General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
- (archaic) Speed.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- when a horse is running in his full career
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy
- It may be admitted that Democracy, in all meanings of the word, is in full career; irresistible by any Ritter Kauderwalsch or other Son of Adam, as times go.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick
- A jouster's path during a joust.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- These knights, therefore, their aim being thus eluded, rushed from opposite sides betwixt the object of their attack and the Templar, almost running their horses against each other ere they could stop their career.
- 1819: Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th-18th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:
- It is said of Cæsar […] that in his youth being mounted upon a horse, and without any bridle, he made him run a full cariere [tr. carriere], make a sodaine stop, and with his hands behind his backe performe what ever can be expected of an excellent ready horse.
- 1756, William Guthrie (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by Quintillian)
- Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:
- (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
- to think of going back again the same career
Related terms
- careerism
- careerist
Translations
Verb
career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)
- To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
- Synonym: careen
- The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
Translations
Adjective
career (not comparable)
- Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”)
- a career criminal
- 2012, Arthur Gillard, Homelessness (page 38)
- Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.
Further reading
- "career" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 52.
Scots
Etymology
From English career.
Noun
career (plural careers)
- career
career From the web:
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- what career should i have
- what career is best for me
- what careers make the most money
- what careers are in demand
- what career fits me
- what career should i do
- what careers use geometry
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