Word Finder - route

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A course or way which is traveled or passed.

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The route was used so much that it formed a rut.

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A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.

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Here is a map of our delivery routes.

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A road or path; often specifically a highway.

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Follow Route 49 out of town.

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One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.

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

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A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.

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To direct or divert along a particular course.

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All incoming mail was routed through a single office.

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To connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.

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To send (information) through a router.

If she saw an escape route, she was gone.

There was no real way to know which route she might've taken.

I was taking a route no one else could track.

Is that the route you recommend?

He didn't want her to take that route, though, because it was too dangerous.

That's the route I'd like you to take.

She turned to retrace her route and stopped.

Would you be willing to let one of my dealers verify the route exists?

Someone had driven the route recently.

There are no locks on the doors or windows, and only one route of egress in the case of an emergency.

If you insist on going, this is the route you must take.

So did she take the northern route or the southern?

Dean and Sackler drove about a mile down old Route 22 to a chrome and Formica railroad-car diner straight out of the fifties.

I jumped in and explained that Molly was at our house and Julie was on route to the Boston airport.

If I believed this route dangerous, I wouldn't send you this way, he replied.

Landon's grim expression was enough to tell Gabriel the route to the underworld was there.

My heart was racing as I tried to remember the route Martha had taken this morning.

Mansr took her a different route than the one she'd used to enter, one that sloped down and then up.

They weren't in a race, though, and the longer route would give her guests more time to explore.

The micro would allow her to map a route west, and she could put on his tactical clothing and mask and leave the tent.

We're not going that route.

The route Alex chose meandered through the gorge and then up a steep deer trail to the top of the mountain.

It was en route that a nagging thought rose to the surface of his cluttered consciousness.

If I don't care which route I use and he does, why should I contest him?

We caught two intersection videos of the van traveling in the direction of route 154.

The last 200 miles of the bus ride traversed the first three days of the bike tour route after which the tour would turn north and enter the really tough mountain portions of the trek.

I will take you the safe route.

Do you think you can remember that route?

Alex led them on a different route – through the wild country they rarely explored.

It seems possible that the road at first led to Tusculum, that it was then prolonged to Labici, and later still became a road for through traffic; it may even have superseded the Via Latina as a route to the S.E., for, while the distance from Rome to their main junction at Ad Bivium (or to another junction at Compitum Anagninum) is practically identical, the summit level of the former is 725 ft.

These steamers are chiefly employed on the passenger route between Ostend and Dover.

She nodded as Hilden indicated the armies to the south, where Memon was positioned to sever the route to her armies.

The route could always be retraced if it was the wrong one.

The isthmus on which the town stands (which position has caused it to be likened to Corinth) can be crossed without surmounting any great elevation, and offers a feasible canal route.

At nearly the same time Hayton, king of Armenia, made a journey to Karakorum in 1254, by a route far to the north of that followed by Carpini and Rubruquis.

The " Resolution " and " Discovery " sailed in 1776, and Cook again took the route by the Cape of Good Hope.

It's not like we haven't gone that route before!

Actually, there was nothing wrong with the route and normally she would have accepted his request without comment.

Callander owes much of its prosperity to the fact that it is the centre from which the Trossachs is usually visited, the route being that described in Scott's Lady of the Lake.

The An pass, an important trade route, rises to a height of 4664 ft.

The expansion of trade was due to the establishment of a boat route directly to the island.

The Atrato at one time attracted considerable attention as a feasible route for a trans-isthmian canal, which, it was estimated, could be excavated at a cost of ii,000,000.

This was the route controlled and developed by the Ptolemaic kings.

Isai Ignatiev made a voyage eastward from the Kolyma river in 1646, and Simon Dezhnev in 1648 followed his route and prolonged it, rounding the East or Dezhnev Cape, and entering the strait.

It lies in the valley between Ebal and Gerizim, on the main caravan route from Jerusalem northward.

On the south, the RikiU Islands bring her within reach of Formosa and the Malayan archipelago; on the west, Oki, Iki, and Tsushima bridge the sea between her and Korea; on the north-west Sakhalin connects her with the Amur region; and on the north, the Kuriles form an almost continuous route to Kamchatka.

There is no sat?sfactory theory as to the route by which the Mongols reached Japan, but it is scarcely possible to doubt that they found their way thither at one time.

All these lagoons are navigable, and those of northern Vera Cruz and Tamaulipas, when connected and improved, will afford a safe inland route for some hundreds of miles along the coast.

The fact that the trade route to Manila passed through Vera Cruz, Mexico City and Acapulco entailed the settlement also of a few Chinese and Malays, chiefly on the Pacific coast.

Another route into Austria, the Brenner, leaves the Milan-Venice line at Verona, which is connected with Modena (and so with central and southern Italy) by a railway through Mantua.