Rout vs Ride - What's the difference?
rout | ride |
To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
To snore; snore loudly.
To belch.
To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.
* Sterne
* Trench
Snoring.
A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke.
A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
* Spenser
A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* 1663 ,
* 1928 , H. P. Lovecraft, "", Weird Tales , Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
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.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
(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.
A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
* Landor
To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
* Clarendon
* 2009 January 30, Adam Entous, "
(obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
* (rfdate)
To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
To use a router in woodworking.
(transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
* 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :
* 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :
* 1923 , "Mrs. Rinehart", Time , 28 Apr 1923:
* 2010 , The Guardian ,
(transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
* 1960 , "Biznelcmd", Time , 20 Jun 1960:
Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
* Dryden
* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :
(intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
(transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
* 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:
(colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
* 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:
Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
* 2008 , Ann Kessel, The Guardian ,
To rely, depend (on).
* 2006 , "Grappling with deficits", The Economist , 9 Mar 2006:
Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
* 2001 , Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer ,
(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
* Jonathan Swift
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
* Sir Walter Scott
(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
An instance of riding.
(informal) A vehicle.
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
As verbs the difference between rout and ride
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 ride is .As a noun 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.rout
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) routen, ruten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
* (cheer)Noun
(en noun)- This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
- "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 ."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at rush.Derived terms
* atroutNoun
(en noun)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 rout of people there assembled were.
- the endless routs of wretched thralls
- the ringleader and head of all this rout
- Nor do I name of men the common rout .
- When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded / With long-ear'd rout , to battle sounded, / And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;
- 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 rout of the enemy was complete.
- Thy army / Dispersed in rout , betook them all to fly.
- To these glad conquest, murderous rout to those.
- (Wharton)
- at routs and dances
Derived terms
* routous, routouslyVerb
(en verb)- That party that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fled.
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.
- In all that land no Christian durste route .
- (Francis Bacon)
Etymology 4
Alteration of root.Verb
(en verb)- (Edwards)
See also
* (Wood router)Anagrams
* ----ride
English
Verb
- Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
- I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
- It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
6 Oct 2010:
- The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
- Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- The cab rode him downtown.
- Men once walked where ships at anchor ride .
- By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home
- The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
- A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
- Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].
- She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
27 Jul 2008:
- In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
- With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
16 Sep 2001:
- She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
- The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
- The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
Derived terms
* ride bareback * ride bitch * ride herd on * ride one's luck * ride roughshod over * ride shotgun * ride tall in the saddle * ride the rails * ride the pine * ride with the punchesNoun
(en noun)- Can I have a ride on your bike?
- That is a nice ride you are driving.
- Can you give me a ride ?
- (Wright)
