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Definition: En Route |
En RouteAdverb1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | In transit (referring to goods, passengers, or vessels). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: En RouteSynonym: on the way (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: En Route |
| Specialty definitions using "en route": B.L.T., BUS DRIVER, DAY-HAUL OR FARM CHARTER, buying behavior ♦ en route kit ♦ Intermediate Point ♦ PERISHABLE-FRUIT INSPECTOR ♦ Temperature 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
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. |
| 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 em viagem (wayfaring), a caminho (on course, on the way, underway). (various references) по пути, по дороге. (various references) na putu (away). (various references) 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) yolu üzerinde, yolda (in the pipe line, on the road), giderken (by the way). (various references) в дорозі, по дорозі. (various references) đang trên đường đi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E      52 6F 75 74 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 00100000 01010010 01101111 01110101 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n   R o u t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E      0052 006F 0075 0074 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398025281878671 |
| 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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