to route
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3.5
- verb
- /ruːt/
- Route the power through the heating cell.
- used to route
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Watch on YouTubeOK, the data we, you know today's mobile Internet is routed via TCP IP addresses.
- OK, the data we, you know today's mobile Internet is routed via TCP IP addresses.
- I want to route to Sydney, but let's stop in Hawaii.
- For each payment that acquirers help merchants route, they charge a fee.
- And if it's higher, then they route their speech processor higher frequencies into that electrode.
- And then depending on your query, it will route you to the right AI platform to do various things.
- That is, they're perfectly willing to route all the traffic along the most congested link in the Internet, OK.
- So you're flying airline speeds and if you're relying upon those tankers, then you got to fly their speed or work some rejoin and route.
- OK so we routed from our Yorkville hotel to House on Parliament which is this old British pub.
Examples
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Standard collection networks and transformers route power generated by the turbines into the utility grid.
Academic text (1994) -
The water hits a flow-splitting device that routes the runoff to two separate treatment systems.
Academic text (2003) -
Any calls from this area will route through him.
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I want you to route all calls through to my cell.
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Alice can route that payment through Bob, which would then send that payment Charlie.
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For instance, consider the system that routes customer baggage through a modern airport.
Academic text (2012) -
The EDI center then routes the claims to the appropriate insurance company.
Academic text (2002) -
Please route the call to my office phone instead of my cell phone.
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Can you route these documents to the marketing team for review?
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They will route the package through the main distribution center before delivery.
Synonyms
105
2.5
To send mail, messages, or packages on to a new address
105
4.2
To cause something like traffic or a river to go a different way
96
4.4
To direct feelings, energy, or money toward a goal
76
3.7
Send people, things, or attention somewhere else to change focus
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3.6
To send something along a different path
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3.7
To go by a longer route to avoid a blocked road
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8.1
To direct a plane toward a particular point
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4.2
To move people or goods through a place on the way to another
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7.9
To direct water or other flow into a channel to control it
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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3.7
A road or path chosen for its beautiful views, usually longer than the direct way
- Informal
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4.0
An indirect way of doing something that is more enjoyable or useful than the fastest way
How Directed
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3.7
96
4.4
56
3.5
105
4.2
105
2.5
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb route comes from the noun route meaning 'road' or 'way', so it means to send or direct something along that path. That's why to route a call or a package is to send it to the right place.