Rout vs Subject - What's the difference?
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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.
Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
* Dryden
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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
* John Locke
(label) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
(label) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
* (1823-1895)
A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
* (Conyers Middleton) (1683-1750)
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
As verbs the difference between rout and subject
is that rout is to make a noise; roar; bellow; snort while subject is to cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.As nouns the difference between rout and subject
is that rout is a noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult while subject is in a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.As an adjective subject is
likely to be affected by or to experience something.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
* ----subject
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a country subject to extreme heat
- All human things are subject to decay.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- (Spenser)
- Esau was never subject to Jacob.
Noun
(en noun)- the subject for heroic song
- Make choice of a subject , beautiful and noble, which shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.
- the unhappy subject of these quarrels
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A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
- The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus , or plain song.
- Writers of particular livesare apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject .
Catherine Clabby
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