different between route vs excursion

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)

1. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
2. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.

3. A road or path; often specifically a highway.

4. (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 […]

5. (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
6. (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)

1. (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.

   All incoming mail was routed through a single office.

2. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
3. (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

1. 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)

1. route, course, way (particular pathway or direction one travels)
2. 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)

1. road (sometimes route like "Route 66")
2. 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)

1. route
2. a group of people
   1. 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

   2. crowd, populace
   3. throng; gang, with connotation of illicit activity
3. 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

1. first-person singular present indicative of routen

Etymology 3

Converted from the noun route. Compare Old French aroter.

Verb

route

1. first-person singular present indicative of routen

Norman

Etymology

From Old French route, from Latin rupta (via).

Noun

route f (plural routes)

1. (Jersey) road
2. (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)

1. route (course or way which is traveled or passed)

Synonyms

• chemin
• curs
• voie

Descendants

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excursio (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks.k??(?).??n/, /?ks.k??(?).??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

excursion (plural excursions)

1. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
2. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
3. (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usally during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
4. (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.

Synonyms

• (recreational trip): journey, trip
• (wandering from the main subject): digression, excursus

Derived terms

• alarums and excursions
• excursion fare
• excursion steamer
• power excursion

Related terms

• excursus

Translations

Verb

excursion (third-person singular simple present excursions, present participle excursioning, simple past and past participle excursioned)

1. (intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.
   • 1825, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Wordsworth, 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, [2]

     Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters.

   • 1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter 49, [3]

     After breakfast, that next morning in Chamonix, we went out in the yard and watched the gangs of excursioning tourists arriving and departing with their mules and guides and porters […]

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Ways of Getting Round,” [4]

     Victoria cows preferred to walk on the plank sidewalks in winter rather than dirty their hooves in the mud by the roadside. They liked to tune their chews to the tap, tap, tap of their feet on the planks. Ladies challenged the right of way by opening and shutting their umbrellas in the cows' faces and shooing, but the cows only chewed harder and stood still. It was the woman-lady, not the lady-cow who had to take to the mud and get scratched by the wild rose bushes that grew between sidewalk and fence while she excursioned round the cow.

Translations

Further reading

• excursion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• excursion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• excursion at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excursio, excursionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sky?.sj??/

Noun

excursion f (plural excursions)

1. excursion
2. wander (talk off topic)

Further reading

• “excursion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).