route vs street

route

noun
  • A road or path; often specifically a highway. 

  • One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something. 

  • A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives. 

  • A course or way which is traveled or passed. 

  • One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits. 

  • A race longer than one mile. 

  • A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation. 

verb
  • To direct or divert along a particular course. 

  • to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet. 

  • To send (information) through a router. 

street

noun
  • The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout. 

  • A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town. 

  • The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood. 

  • Wall Street. 

  • Streetwise slang. 

  • Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river. 

  • A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles. 

  • A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings. 

  • An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs. 

  • The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities. 

  • Living in the streets. 

  • A great distance. 

verb
  • To go on sale. 

  • To heavily defeat. 

  • To eject; to throw onto the streets. 

  • To build or equip with streets. 

  • To proselytize in public. 

adj
  • Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends. 

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