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trout | rout |

As nouns the difference between trout and rout

is that trout is any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once while rout is a noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.

As verbs the difference between trout and rout

is that trout is to (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly while rout is to make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.

As a proper noun Trout

is {{surname|lang=en}.

trout

English

Noun

(wikipedia trout) (en-noun)
  • Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
  • *
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  • , passage=“This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”}}
  • An elderly woman of dubious sensibilities.
  • Derived terms

    * brown trout * rainbow trout * salmon trout * Sevan trout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout ; to admonish jocularly.
  • 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

    * ----