route

[[t]rut, raʊt[/t]]

n. v. rout•ed, rout•ing

1) a course, way, or road for passage or travel

2) a customary or regular line of passage or travel

3) a specific itinerary or round of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of a job:

a newspaper route[/ex]

4) to fix the route of:

to route a tour[/ex]

5) to send, direct, or forward by a particular route:

Calls were routed through the switchboard[/ex]

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Etymology: 1175–1225; ME: way, course < OF < VL *rupta (via) broken, i.e., freshly made, forced (way), L: fem. ptp. of rumpere to break; cf. rout I