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| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path over which someone or something travels |
| Synonyms: | avenue, beat, beeline, circuit, course, detour, digression, direction, divergence, itinerary, journey, line, meandering, passage, pavement, pike, plot, program, rambling, range, road, round, run, tack, track, trail, wandering, way, byway, rounds, short cut |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | send along a path |
| Synonyms: | address, conduct, consign, convey, direct, dispatch, escort, forward, guide, lead, pilot, remit, see, shepherd, ship, show, steer, transmit |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | access |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admission, means of entry, approach |
| Synonyms: | admittance, approach, avenue, connection, contact, course, door, entrance, entree, entry, ingress, introduction, key, open door*, passage, path, road, route, way, in, open arms |
| Antonyms: | egress, outlet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | write directions for delivery |
| Synonyms: | consign, dispatch, forward, inscribe, label, mark, remit, route, send, ship, transmit, postmark, superscribe |
| Main Entry: | artery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | channel |
| Synonyms: | avenue, boulevard, canal, conduit, corridor, course, duct, highway, line, passage, road, route, sewer, thoroughfare, track, tube, way, pathway |
| Main Entry: | avenue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | street; path |
| Synonyms: | access, alley, approach, boulevard, channel, course, drive, entrance, entry, exit, outlet, passage, promenade, road, route, thoroughfare, way, parkway, pathway |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | circuit, course, march, path, patrol, precinct, route, walk, way, rounds |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pathway, usually containing water |
| Synonyms: | approach, aqueduct, arroyo, artery, avenue, canal, canyon, carrier, chamber, chase, conduit, course, dig, ditch, duct, furrow, gouge, groove, gully, gutter, main, means, medium, pass, passage, pipe, route, runway, sewer, slit, sound, strait, trough, tube, tunnel, vein, watercourse, way, fluting, raceway, tideway |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, approach, avenue, course, instrument, instrumentality, medium, ministry, organ, route, vehicle, way, instrumentation |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | direct, guide |
| Synonyms: | carry, conduct, convey, funnel, pipe, route, send, siphon, transmit, transport, traject |
| Main Entry: | circuit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | revolution, track, boundary |
| Synonyms: | ambit, area, circle, circulation, circumference, compass, course, cycle, district, journey, lap, limit, line, orbit, perimeter, periphery, range, region, round, route, tour, tract, turn, twirl, way, wheel, whirl, wind, winding, zone, bounds, circling, circumnavigation, circumscription, circumvolution, gyration, gyre, perambulation, turning |
| Main Entry: | communications |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | systems of information exchange |
| Synonyms: | information technology, means, media, public relations, publicity, route, transport, travel, telecommunications |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transport |
| Synonyms: | accompany, attend, bring, carry, chaperon, companion, convoy, escort, guide, lead, move, pilot, route, send, shepherd, show, steer, transfer, pass on |
| Antonyms: | leave |
| Main Entry: | consign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entrust, hand over for care |
| Synonyms: | address, appoint, assign, authorize, commission, commit, confide, convey, delegate, deliver, dispatch, forward, give, issue, relegate, remit, route, send, ship, transfer, transmit, turn over, commend to, deposit with, put in charge of |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, receive, retain |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path, channel |
| Synonyms: | aisle, aqueduct, canal, circuit, conduit, direction, duct, flow, groove, itinerary, lap, line, movement, orbit, passage, range, road, route, run, rut, scope, stream, tack, track, trail, trajectory, watercourse, way, boards, byway |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conquer in military manner |
| Synonyms: | ambush, annihilate, bar, bear down, beat, best, block, butcher, crush, decimate, demolish, discomfit, drown, entrap, halt, hinder, impede, lick, obliterate, obstruct, outflank, outmaneuver, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, parry, quell, reduce, repel, repress, repulse, rout, route, sack, scatter, sink, slaughter, smash, subdue, subjugate, suppress, surmount, swamp, trample, trash, upset, vanquish, whip, wipe out, finish off, mow down, prevail over, roll back, shipwreck, torpedo* |
| Antonyms: | lose, surrender, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | direct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | point in a direction; guide |
| Synonyms: | address, aim, beam, cast, conduct, escort, fix, focus, head, incline, indicate, intend, lay, lead, level, mean, pilot, point, present, route, see, set, shepherd, show, sight, slant, steer, target, train, turn, move in, point the way, sight on, zero in |
| Antonyms: | diverge, misdirect |
| Main Entry: | direct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | send, usually by mail system |
| Synonyms: | address, designate, inscribe, label, mail, mark, route, superscribe |
| Main Entry: | dispatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurry, send fast |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, address, consign, dismiss, express, forward, hasten, issue, quicken, railroad*, remit, route, ship, speed, transmit, hand-carry, run with, run with ball, walk through |
| Antonyms: | hold, hold back, keep, prohibit, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | escort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act as a companion, guard |
| Synonyms: | accompany, attend, bear, bring, carry, chaperon, company, conduct, convoy, date, direct, drag, guide, lead, partner, pilot, protect, route, see, shepherd, show, squire, steer, usher, consort with, go with, take out |
| Antonyms: | abandon, desert, drop, leave, lose, maroon, neglect |
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