Encounter vs Route - What's the difference?
encounter | route |
To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly.
To confront (someone or something) face to face.
(ambitransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
* Shakespeare
An unplanned or unexpected meeting.
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*:That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish.
A sudden, often violent clash, as between combatants.
(label) A match between two opposing sides.
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, title= A course or way which is traveled or passed.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
* , volume=101, issue=2, page=83
, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
(rfc-sense) (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
* 2010 , Damien McLoughlin and David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-68975-2,
To direct or divert along a particular course.
(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet
To send (information) through a router
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As verbs the difference between encounter and route
is that encounter is to meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly while route is .As a noun encounter
is an unplanned or unexpected meeting.encounter
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * incounter (archaic) * incountre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Three armies encountered at Waterloo.
- I will encounter with Andronicus.
Noun
(en noun)Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal, passage=Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter .}}
Synonyms
* (unplanned meeting ): * (hostile meeting ): clash, confrontation, brush, skirmishDerived terms
* close encounter * encounter grouproute
English
(wikipedia route)Etymology 1
From (etyl) route, rote (French: route) “road, way, path” (source:route on Etymonline)
Noun
(en noun)The Smallest Cell, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}
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- If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route'.
Derived terms
* escape route * paper route * scenic routeVerb
- All incoming mail was routed through a single office.