Definitions for routing

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routing rout·ing

Spelling: [roo-ting, rou-]

IPA: /ˈru tɪŋ, ˈraʊ-/

Routing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in routing (ginortu).

Definitions for routing

noun

1. the scheduling of the route or itinerary of people, freight, etc.
2. the arranging and scheduling of mail for delivery.
3. delivery according to scheduled sequence.
4. a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
5. any overwhelming defeat:
6. a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.
7. the rabble or mob.
8. Law. a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot although they do not actually carry out the intention.
9. a large, formal evening party or social gathering.
10. Archaic. a company or band of people.
11. a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
12. a customary or regular line of passage or travel:
13. a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty:
14. a bellow.

Idioms

1. go the route, Informal. to see something through to completion: Baseball. to pitch the complete game:

verb (used with object)

1. to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight:
2. to defeat decisively:
3. to fix the route of:
4. to send or forward by a particular route:
5. to turn over or dig up (something) with the snout.
6. to find or get by searching, rummaging, etc. (usually followed by out).
7. to cause to rise from bed (often followed by up or out).
8. to force or drive out.
9. to hollow out or furrow, as with a scoop, gouge, or machine.

verb (used without object)

1. to root:
2. to poke, search, or rummage.
3. to snore.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bellow; roar.

Origin of routing

First recorded in 1900-05; route + -ing¹

Examples for routing

As voters at home know, few leaders have been as prominent in routing moderates like Graham out of the party.

Mrs. Austen, after routing the boy, had lowered her glasses.

Spinoza was born here, in 1632, after the routing of the Spanish forces.

She fights to the last, invincible; gathering in the spoils and only routing her friends?

He heard the cows "routing," or bellowing, and the women screaming.

The party won the last election, in 2011, routing the opposition Democrat Party.

Ted and Art are routing out some provisions from the groceries and such.

So, two months later, I went back to Los Angeles to go through an official “routing out” procedure.

"This was a routing station for key Nathian families," he said.

As part of the cache of documents, Medsger received an F.B.I. routing slip with a mysterious word on it—COINTELPRO.