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En Route

Definition: En Route

En Route

Adverb

1. On a route to some place; "help is on the way"; "we saw him on the way to California".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: En Route

DomainDefinitions

Economics

In transit (referring to goods, passengers, or vessels). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: En Route

Synonym: on the way (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: En Route

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Journey

In transitu; en route.

Sequence

Adverb: forward, onward; forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to; in progress; in mid progress; in transitu.

Transference

On the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course; as one goes; in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: En Route

Specialty definitions using "en route": B.L.T., BUS DRIVER, DAY-HAUL OR FARM CHARTER, buying behavioren route kitIntermediate PointPERISHABLE-FRUIT INSPECTORTemperature Recorder, time en route. (references)
Non-English Usage: "En Route" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (on the way, under way), German (en route).

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Modern Usage: En Route

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ingenious, and useful too. Allow a man to stop off for a quick one en route. (Goldfinger; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Lyrics

She been a walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay ("Brown Eyed Handsome Man"; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Movie/TV Titles

Wagon Supply Train en Route (1898)

En route (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: En Route

DomainTitle

Books

  • Brazil's Second Chance: En Route toward the First World (reference)

  • En Route (Penumbra D20) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: En Route

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View of Africa and Saudi Arabia from Apollo 17.Probably the most requested picture of the Earth, this picture was taken by the Apollo17 astronauts as they left earth orbit en route to the Moon. Taken on Dec. 7, 1972,it was the first time that the trajectory of an Apollo mission enabled a view ofthe south pole.Credit: NASA.

En route to Black Butte Triangulation party of William M. Scaife.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Trucks, en route" - White 3/4 ton truck Astro Party of C. V. Hodges.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Chris Doley, of NOAA, en route to begin sample sorting.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Culvert parts en route to the site arrive as the crane offloads various sections of the culvert off the flatbed.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Fleet of menhaden steamers en route to fishing grounds On south side of Long Island, N. Y From sketch by Capt. B. F. Conklin.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

AQUARIUS, built in Texas, en route to St. Croix in 1986.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Dr. Tony Picciolo on collecting expedition in pre-revolutionary Cuba. En route to the Sierra Maestra mountain range of eastern Cuba to collect fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.Credit: Small World.

Bulk transport of pharmaceuticals - in this case anti-cholera supplies en route to South-East Asia. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

Marines and Sailors of the carrier's crew man the rails as she leaves Honolulu, Hawaii, on 10 March 1989, en route to the western Pacific. Photographed by PH3 Bos. Tug at left is Niantic (YTB-781).Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: En Route

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

All necessary administrative and technical measures shall be taken to shorten, as much as possible, the transmission of goods across the German frontiers and to ensure their forwarding and transport from such frontiers, irrespective of whether such goods are coming from or going to the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers or are in transit from or to those territories, under the same material conditions in such matters as rapidity of carriage and care en route as are enjoyed by other goods of the same kind carried on German territory under similar conditions of transport. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: En Route

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Many of those expelled were en route to the northern border with the United States. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kyrgyz Republic

For example, a truck carrying 53 Tajiks en route to Russia was stopped in Jalal-Abad Province and turned back. (references)

South Africa

Inadequate security on the trains allows many deportees to jump from the train en route, perpetuating the illegal immigration problem. (references)

Tajikistan

However, the UNHCR does not have statistics on the number of refugees remaining in the country after receiving asylum because the majority of such persons use the country as a transit point en route to other European countries. (references)

Economic History

Jamaica

Jamaica is a major transit point for South American cocaine en route to the United States. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

While en route, Awad lapsed into a coma and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. (references)

Burundi

The rebels forced the students to transport goods stolen from nearby homes and shops and beat those who faltered en route. (references)

Travel

Kenya

In March 1999, a passenger train en route from Nairobi to Mombasa derailed, killing 32 people, including one foreign tourist. (references)

Italy

U.S. Citizens are reminded that certain Alitalia flights between Italy and various middle eastern points (usually Damascus or Amman) make en route stops in Beirut. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

East Asian and Bangladeshi women are trafficked through the country en route to other destinations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: En Route

Expressions using "en route": en route kit en route to time en route. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: En Route

Language Translations for "en route"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrugës, gjatë rrugës (along the way, in transit, on one's way, with a through passage). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏في مسيرة, ‏في الطريق (in the way). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

на път (bound, on the road), по пътя. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"中 . (various references)

   

Danish

  

undervejs (underway). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onderweg (on the way). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

matkatarvikesarja (en route kit), matkalla johonkin (bound for, en route to, on the way to), kulunut ilma-aika (time en route). (various references)

   

French

  

croisière. (various references)

   

German

  

en route, unterwegs (away, bound, en-route, ENRT, on the way, under way), Marschflug, auf dem Versandwege. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθ'οδόν. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ב"רך אל, ב"רך (by way of, through, wise). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

úton (in transit, on the way, to be under way, to hack along the road, to waylay, under sail, under way, underway), útközben (along the way, by the way, in transit, on the go, on the run, on the way, under way). (various references)

   

Italian

  

in viaggio, in corso di trasporto. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"上 (half way), "中 (midway, on the way). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

つちゅう (midway, on the way), とじょう (attendance at a castle, half way, slaughterhouse), とちゅう (midway, on the way). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enay outeray

   

Portuguese

  

em viagem (wayfaring), a caminho (on course, on the way, underway). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

по пути, по дороге. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

na putu (away). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

en ruta, en camino, ruta (canine, cumin, itinerary, journey, Lane, lift, line, path, road, route, routing, tack, way), crucero (battle cruiser, break through, cross-cut, cruise, cruiser, junction, ocean cruiser, transept). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yolu üzerinde, yolda (in the pipe line, on the road), giderken (by the way). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

в дорозі, по дорозі. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đang trên đường đi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: En Route

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: neuter, retune, tenour, tenure, tureen.

-2 letters: enter, enure, noter, outer, outre, rente, rouen, route, tenor, terne, toner, treen, trone, tuner.

-3 letters: erne, euro, note, rent, rete, rote, roue, rout, rune, runt, teen, tern, tone, tore, torn, tour, tree, true, tune, turn, unto.

-4 letters: eon, ere, ern, nee, net, nor, not, nut, one, ore, ort, our, out, ree, ret, roe, rot, rue, run, rut, tee, ten, toe, ton, tor, tun, urn.

-5 letters: en, er, et, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re, to, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: deuteron, fourteen, hereunto, outpreen, routemen.

 

+2 letters: countered, deuterons, encounter, entourage, fourteens, outearned, outpreens, recounted, recounter, remounted, rousement, tenebrous, thereunto, thereupon, tourneyed, undertone, volunteer, whereunto.

 

+3 letters: auctioneer, conjecture, contexture, countermen, countersue, documenter, encounters, entourages, enumerator, extenuator, extraneous, fourteener, fourteenth, nontenured, outgeneral, outlearned, outpreened, overhunted, overturned, peritoneum, questioner, rebuttoned, reconquest, recounters, recoupment, rencounter, rousements, southerner, tenebrious, tenpounder, tremendous, uncorseted, undertones, underwrote, unescorted, unforested, unreported, unrestored, untogether, urinometer, volunteers.

 

+4 letters: auctioneers, beardtongue, boutonniere, conjectured, conjecturer, conjectures, contextures, counterbade, counterfeit, counterfire, countermemo, countermine, countermove, counterpane, counterplea, counterpose, counterstep, countersued, countersues, counterview, deuteranope, deuteration, documenters, encountered, endometrium, enterovirus, enumeration, enumerators, executioner, extenuators, extenuatory, fluorescent, fourteeners, fourteenths, groundsheet, heteroauxin, houseparent, intercouple, intercourse, interneuron, leukotriene, mountaineer, neuroactive, neuroleptic, neuropteran, outbreeding, outgenerals, outmaneuver, outnumbered, outpreening, outsteering, overcounted, pentamerous, peritoneums, persecution, preconquest, pretentious, procurement, questioners, reconquests, recontoured, recoupments, reeducation, reencounter, reinoculate, reintroduce, rejuvenator, remunerator, rencounters, southerners, stonecutter, tenpounders, terrigenous, truncheoned, typefounder, unconverted, uncorrected, undecorated, underreport, unelaborate, unprotected, unretouched, unstoppered, urinometers, venturesome, volunteered.

 

+5 letters: accouterment, accoutrement, amentiferous, beardtongues, boutonnieres, commensurate, conjecturers, countenancer, counteracted, counteragent, counterargue, countercheck, countercries, counterfeits, counterfired, counterfires, counterforce, counterimage, countermemos, countermined, countermines, countermoved, countermoves, counteroffer, counterorder, counterpanes, counterpleas, counterpoise, counterposed, counterposes, counterpower, counterspell, counterspies, counterstate, countersteps, counterstyle, countertenor, countertrade, countertrend, counterviews, deregulation, deuteranopes, deuteranopia, deuteranopic, deuterations, electrotonus, encountering, enterococcus, enumerations, executioners, extraneously, fluorescents, groundsheets, heteroauxins, heterogenous, heteronomous, housepainter, houseparents, housetrained, inoperculate, intercourses, interneurons, internucleon, leukotrienes, mountaineers, neurochemist, neuroleptics, neuropathies, neuropeptide, neuropterans, neuropterous, neutrinoless, nomenclature, nonpetroleum, nonrecurrent, nonregulated, obdurateness, outbreedings, outgeneraled, outmaneuvers, outrebounded, outsiderness, overdocument, percutaneous, perpetuation, persecutions, picturephone, polyurethane, precautioned, procurements, protuberance, reconstitute, recuperation, rediscounted, reeducations, reencounters, reevaluation, reinoculated, reinoculates, reintroduced, reintroduces, rejuvenation, rejuvenators, remuneration, remunerators, remuneratory, rencountered, renouncement, reregulation, resoluteness, resurrection, robustnesses, rotundnesses, seropurulent, southeastern, southernness, southwestern, stonecutters, supervention, thunderstone, tremendously, typefounders, uncorrelated, underclothes, undercounted, underreports, understories, ungenerosity, unornamented, uprootedness, volunteering, volunteerism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: En Route


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E      52 6F 75 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 00100000 01010010 01101111 01110101 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#32 &#82 &#111 &#117 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E      0052 006F 0075 0074 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

398025281878671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Historic
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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