Difference between route and rip
Definitions
verb
- send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
- send via a specific route
- divert in a specified direction
noun
- an established line of travel or access
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
Examples
He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route.
Since then neither the printer nor wireless internet router appeared to be working.
Pile each croute with the prawn mixture and serve at once.
Definitions
verb
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- move precipitously or violently
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
noun
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
Examples
Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
