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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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flow
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fl??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /flo?/
- Homophones: floe, Flo
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English flowen, from Old English fl?wan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *fl?an, from Proto-Germanic *fl?an? (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?w-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Compare float.
Noun
flow (countable and uncountable, plural flows)
- A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- Smoothness or continuity.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- (computing) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action. (Usually preceded by an attributive such as login or search.)
Synonyms
- (continuity): See also Thesaurus:continuity
Antonyms
- (movement of the tide): ebb
- (continuity): See also Thesaurus:discontinuity
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- ebb and flow
- flowchart
- flowmeter
- freeflow
- single-flow
Translations
Further reading
- flow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flow (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- , Dedication
- Virgil […] is […] sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- In that day […] the hills shall flow with milk.
- 1845, John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Robert Burns
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- a flowing mantle; flowing locks
- March 11, 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
Derived terms
- flowable, reflowable
- free-flowing
- overflow
- underflow
Translations
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).
Noun
flow (plural flows)
- (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
References
- “flow, n.2.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
- “flow, v., n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Anagrams
- Wolf, fowl, wolf
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flow/, [?flow]
Noun
flow m (plural flows)
- flow
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