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router 1 [rou-ter] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing. Also called router plane. Carpentry. a plane for cutting interior angles, as at the bottom of a groove. a machine or tool for cutting into or below a main surface, as of a die or engraving plate. verb (used with object) to cut with a router. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of router 1First recorded in 1840–50; rout2 + -er1 router 2 [roo-ter, rou-] noun a person or thing that routes. a piece of hardware or software having a specific IP address and connected to network nodes for the transfer of data between computers. Origin of router 2First recorded in 1900–05; route + -er1 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for router Contemporary Examples of router
So I use the safe to hide the cable for my Internet router and my iPhone when I need to be working.
The Internet Won’t Save Us: Evgeny Morozov’s Stand Against Technology Solutionism
Robert Herritt
March 5, 2013
If that sentence is meaningless to you, find the manual for your Wi-Fi router, pronto.
Thomas E. Weber
October 25, 2010
Historical Examples of router
This can be done with socket chisel and mallet, or with a router.
Edwin W. Foster
To a fellow I saw up there—Mr. ‘Router’, I think he said was his name.
Thomas Nelson Page
In addition to the above tools, carvers occasionally use one called a “Router.”
George Jack
A router, for cleaning out and smoothing the bottoms of grooves and depressions, is very useful at times.
Charles Gardner Wheeler
Router and Brown Willy stood like grim sentinels watching over the scene.
Joseph Hocking
British Dictionary definitions for router router 1 noun any of various tools or machines for hollowing out, cutting grooves, etc router 2 noun computing a device that allows packets of data to be moved efficiently between two points on a network Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for router n.
“cutter that removes wood from a groove,” 1818, from rout “poke about, rummage” (1540s), originally of swine digging with the snout; a variant of root (v.1).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper router in Science router [rou′tər] A device in a network that handles message transfers between computers. A router receives information and forwards it based on what the router determines to be the most efficient route at the time of transfer. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
