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Definitions for Routing

[1] the scheduling of the route or itinerary of people, freight, etc.
[2] the arranging and scheduling of mail for delivery.
[3] delivery according to scheduled sequence.
[4] a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder: to put an army to rout; to put reason to rout.
[5] any overwhelming defeat: a rout of the home team by the state champions.
[6] a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.
[7] the rabble or mob.
[8] Law . a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot although they do not actually carry out the intention.
[9] a large, formal evening party or social gathering.
[10] Archaic . a company or band of people.
[11] to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight: to rout an army.
[12] to defeat decisively: to rout an opponent in conversation.
[13] a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
[14] a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.
[15] a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.
[16] to fix the route of: to route a tour.
[17] to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.
[18] to root: pigs routing in the garden.
[19] to poke, search, or rummage.
[20] to turn over or dig up (something) with the snout.
[21] to find or get by searching, rummaging, etc. (usually followed by out ).
[22] to cause to rise from bed (often followed by up or out ).
[23] to force or drive out.
[24] to hollow out or furrow, as with a scoop, gouge, or machine.
[25] to snore.
[26] to bellow; roar.
[27] a bellow.
[28] an overwhelming defeat
[29] a disorderly retreat
[30] a noisy rabble
[31] law a group of three or more people proceeding to commit an illegal act
[32] archaic a large party or social gathering
[33] (tr) to defeat and cause to flee in confusion
[34] to dig over or turn up (something), esp (of an animal) with the snout; root
[35] (tr ; usually foll by out or up) to get or find by searching
[36] (tr usually foll by out ) to force or drive out they routed him out of bed at midnight
[37] (tr often foll by out ) to hollow or gouge out
[38] (intr) to search, poke, or rummage
[39] the choice of roads taken to get to a place
[40] a regular journey travelled
[41] (capital) US a main road between cities Route 66
[42] mountaineering the direction or course taken by a climb
[43] med the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection oral route
[44] to plan the route of; send by a particular route

Words related to Routing

repulse, crush, finish, subdue, expel, beat, trounce, clobber, overpower, conquer, kill, destroy, chase, whip, vanquish, transmit, dispel, bulldoze, zap, cream

Words nearby Routing

router, router patch, routh, routine, routineer, routing, routinism, routinize, roux, rouyn, roué

Origin of Routing

41250–1300; Middle English rowten < Old Norse rauta to bellow; akin to Latin rudere

Words that may be confused with Routing

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, routeroot, rout, route

Other words from Routing

mis·route , verb (used with object), mis·rout·ed, mis·rout·ing.
pre·route , verb (used with object), pre·rout·ed, pre·rout·ing.
re·route , verb, re·rout·ed, re·rout·ing.

Word origin for Routing

eC13: from Old French rute , from Vulgar Latin rupta via (unattested), literally: a broken (established) way, from Latin ruptus broken, from rumpere to break, burst

Synonyms for Routing

beat, chase, clobber, conquer, crush, destroy, expel, finish, kill, overpower, repulse, subdue, trounce, vanquish, whip, wipe out, bash, bulldoze, bury, cream, discomfit, dispel, hunt, lambaste, larrup, murder, outmaneuver, overthrow, scatter, scuttle, skunk, subjugate, swamp, torpedo, total, wallop, wax, worst, zap, blow out of water, clean up on, cut to pieces, drive off, put to flight, shut out, wipe off map