route, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

route (routes plural & 3rd person present) (routing present participle) (routed past tense & past participle )
Pronounced [PH:r][PH:u][PH::][PH:t] or [PH:r][PH:a][PH:U][PH:t] in American English.

1 n-count A route is a way from one place to another.
...the most direct route to the town centre...

2 n-count A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly.
...the main shipping routes to Japan.

3 n-in-names In the United States, Route is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities.
...the Broadway-Webster exit on Route 580.

4  n-count Your route is the series of visits you make to different people or places, as part of your job.
(mainly AM)
He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route...
in BRIT, usually use round, rounds

5 n-count You can refer to a way of achieving something as a route. (=road)
Researchers are trying to get at the same information through an indirect route...

6 verb If vehicles, goods, or passengers are routed in a particular direction, they are made to travel in that direction.
Double-stack trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks... be V-ed prep/adv

7 En route to a place means on the way to that place. En route is sometimes spelled on route in non-standard English.
♦ en route phrase
They have arrived in London en route to the United States...

8 Journalists sometimes use en route when they are mentioning an event that happened as part of a longer process or before another event.
♦ en route phrase
The German set three tournament records and equalled two others en route to grabbing golf's richest prize.

9 If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished.
(AM)
♦ go the route phrase
They have gone the route, in many cases, of just big<endash>big bowls, big statues, big masks, big everything.