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As verbs the difference between rout and flight

is that 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 while flight is (cricket|of a spin bowler) to throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.

As nouns the difference between rout and flight

is that 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 while flight is the act of flying or flight can be the act of fleeing.

As an adjective flight is

(obsolete) fast, swift.

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

    * ----

    flight

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) flyht, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch vlucht, German Flucht (etymology 2).

    Noun

  • The act of flying.
    • Birds are capable of flight
  • An instance of flying.
    • The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
  • A collective term for doves or swallows.
  • A journey made by an aircraft, eg a balloon, plane or space shuttle, particularly one between two airports, which needs to be reserved in advance.
    • The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight
    Where is the departure gate for flight 747? / Go straight down and to the right.
  • The act of fleeing. (Flight'' is the noun which corresponds to the verb ''flee .)
    • take flight
    the flight of a refugee
  • A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
  • A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
    • How many flights is it up?
  • A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
  • A paper plane.
  • (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
  • The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
  • An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
  • An air force unit.
  • Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
  • (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
    • Derived terms
    * direct flight * flight attendant * flight ceiling * flight data recorder * flight deck * flightiness * flightless * flight level * flight of fancy * flight path * flight recorder * flighty * in-flight, inflight * * maiden flight * midflight * overflight * preflight * spaceflight, space flight * take flight * time-of-flight * time-of-flight mass spectrometry * top-flight, topflight
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Fast, swift.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.

    • See also

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) flyht, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch vlucht and German Flucht (etymology 1).

    Noun

  • The act of fleeing.

    • Related terms

    * (l)