to route
- verb
- /ruːt/
- Route the power through the heating cell.
- used to route
OK, 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
To direct feelings, energy, or money toward a goal
To send mail, messages, or packages on to a new address
To cause something like traffic or a river to go a different way
Send people, things, or attention somewhere else to change focus
To send something along a different path
To go by a longer route to avoid a blocked road
To direct a plane toward a particular point
To move people or goods through a place on the way to another
To direct water or other flow into a channel to control it
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A road or path chosen for its beautiful views, usually longer than the direct way
- Informal
An indirect way of doing something that is more enjoyable or useful than the fastest way
How Directed
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.