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Path vs Rout - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between path and rout

is that path is to make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone) while rout is to defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.

As nouns the difference between path and rout

is that path is a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians while rout is a noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult or rout can be a violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke or rout can be a troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

As verbs the difference between path and rout

is that path is to make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone) while rout is to make a noise; roar; bellow; snort or rout can be to beat; strike; assail with blows or rout can be to defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat or rout can be to search or root in the ground, as a swine.

path

English

(wikipedia path)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  • * (John Dryden)
  • The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • A course taken.
  • * 1900 , , , Chapter I,
  • Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.
  • (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  • A metaphorical course.
  • A method or direction of proceeding.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxv. 10
  • All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.
  • * Gray
  • The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
  • (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL
  • (graph theory) A sequence of vertices]] from one vertex to another using the arcs ([[edge, edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path , where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  • (topology) A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
  • Synonyms

    * (1): track, trail; see also

    Derived terms

    * bridle path * cross paths * cycle path * footpath * path of least resistance * pathway

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
  • * Drayton
  • pathing young Henry's unadvised ways

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]

    rout

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) routen, ruten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
  • To snore; snore loudly.
  • (Chaucer)
  • To belch.
  • To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
  • Derived terms
    * (cheer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.
  • * Sterne
  • This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
  • * Trench
  • "My child, it is not well," I said, / "Among the graves to shout; / To laugh and play among the dead, / And make this noisy rout ."
  • Snoring.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at rush.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To beat; strike; assail with blows.
  • Derived terms
    * atrout

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke.
  • Etymology 3

    1598, "disorderly retreat," from (etyl) route'' "disorderly flight of troops," literally "a breaking off, rupture," from ''rupta'' "a dispersed group," literally "a broken group," from (etyl) ''rupta'', feminine past participle of ''rumpere "to break" (see rupture). The verb is from 1600.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
  • * Spenser
  • A rout of people there assembled were.
  • A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
  • * Spenser
  • the endless routs of wretched thralls
  • * Shakespeare
  • the ringleader and head of all this rout
  • * Milton
  • Nor do I name of men the common rout .
  • * 1663 ,
  • When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded / With long-ear'd rout , to battle sounded, / And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;
  • * 1928 , H. P. Lovecraft, "", Weird Tales , Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
  • although there must have been nearly a hundred mongrel celebrants in the throng, the police relied on their firearms and plunged determinedly into the nauseous rout .
  • The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army.
  • The rout of the enemy was complete.
  • * Daniel
  • Thy army / Dispersed in rout , betook them all to fly.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • To these glad conquest, murderous rout to those.
  • (legal) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
  • (Wharton)
  • A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
  • * Landor
  • at routs and dances
    Derived terms
    * routous, routously

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
  • * Clarendon
  • That party that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fled.
  • * 2009 January 30, Adam Entous, " Mitchell warns of setbacks ahead in Mideast talks" (news article), Reuters:
  • Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and seized control of the enclave in June 2007.
  • (obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
  • * (rfdate)
  • In all that land no Christian durste route .
    (Francis Bacon)

    Etymology 4

    Alteration of root.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
  • (Edwards)
  • To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
  • To use a router in woodworking.
  • See also

    * (Wood router)

    Anagrams

    * ----