What's the difference between router and routing?

Router


Definition:

  • (n.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
  • (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HIV-1 was cultured from cool aerosols and vapors generated by a 30,000 RPM spinning router tip, an instrument similar to the Midas Rex and the Stryker oscillating bone saw.
  • (2) Nominum said over a single day in February more than 5.3m of the routers running the feature were used to generate attack traffic in Asia.
  • (3) The reason this is so scary is because virtually every bit of kit that runs the internet – the machine on which you compose your emails, the tablet or smartphone with which you browse the net, the routers that pass on the data packets that comprise your email or your web search, everything – is a computer.
  • (4) But it is not your internet connection, your router or your computer – the internet is staging a protest.
  • (5) Gramofon buyers will also become Fon members, able to access the company's network of hotspots – although as with Fon's existing routers, this means "sharing a bit of Wi-Fi at home" – allowing other Fon members within range to use their internet connection.
  • (6) A sensible way to combat such interference would be to switch my router off for a few hours or download one of the increasing range of software packages that lock you out of Facebook and Twitter – or, like Sean French, one half of the bestselling crime writing novelist duo Nicci French — build a writing shed just out of broadband range.
  • (7) The lawsuit challenges the “suspicionless seizure and searching of internet traffic” by the NSA in the US that it says is done by “tapping directly into the internet backbone inside the United States – the network of high-capacity cables, switches, and routers that today carry vast numbers of Americans’ communications with each other and with the rest of the world.” The NSA’s so-called “Upstream” surveillance scheme – first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post – is designed to capture communications with “non-US persons” to acquire foreign intelligence information.
  • (8) Freedom Hosting hosted sites on the The Onion Router (Tor) network, which anonymises and encrypts traffic, masking the identity of users.
  • (9) At the press of a button you should be able to hear whatever content you like around your house, and it shouldn’t be a significant technological process of how to set stuff up and how to use it.” There are significant hurdles to getting to the point where “it just works”, not least the wide variety of Wi-Fi home setups which often include cheap, poor Wi-Fi routers provided by internet service providers.
  • (10) Or how about Cisco, whose routers have been used to build China's Great Firewall , which keeps the majority of its citizens in wilful ignorance of the opinions of the world beyond its shores?
  • (11) He wrote that the exemption "was created to avoid a situation in which the copies made, for example, in a router as it passes data from one machine to another, were infringing and therefore became the focus of legal actions or problems."
  • (12) In another case you won't need any authentication at all to compromise the whole database [by sending malicious commands to the database].” • Wifi routers could be exploited for huge internet attacks in the UK - study
  • (13) The Cell site was set up at the company's expense to ensure the integrity of Huawei's products, which include routers used across the UK's fibre-optic cable network.
  • (14) It plugs into the router and drains power, but seems to make little difference.
  • (15) I lock my phone and my router cable in my safe so I'm completely free from any interruption and I can spend the entire day, weekend or week reading and writing.
  • (16) In a post on its European Public Policy blog on 27 April, Google stated that although it does gather wifi network names (SSIDs) and identifiers (Mac addresses) for devices like network routers, it does not gather "payload" data passed through those wifi networks.
  • (17) Meanwhile in a quarry in Carrara outside Rome, the decorative features of the Bel temple uprights are being etched by a CNC router-engraver.
  • (18) For example, the recent rise in productivity in the service sector has happened mainly because it is using more advanced inputs produced in the manufacturing sector – computers, fibre-optic cables, routers, GPS machines, more fuel-efficient cars, mechanised warehouses and so on.
  • (19) As many as 24m routers across the world can be used by cybercriminals to launch massive attacks on internet infrastructure, while simultaneously disrupting home connections and costing communications companies dearly.
  • (20) It also holds great promise for cybercriminals who can use our homes' routers, televisions, refrigerators and other Internet-connected devices to launch large and distributed attacks", said Michael Osterman, principal analyst at Osterman Research.

Routing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rout

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Topical and systemic antibiotic therapy is common in dermatology, yet it is hard to find a rationale for a particular route in some diseases.
  • (2) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
  • (3) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
  • (4) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
  • (5) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
  • (6) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
  • (7) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
  • (8) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
  • (9) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
  • (10) These results indicate that major metabolic routes of CB were deacetylation at the 16-position and epimerization at the 3-position via the 3-keto intermediate.
  • (11) Studies of barbiturate and benzodiazepine self-administration are categorized by species and route of administration.
  • (12) The route of antigen administration produced no difference in the class of lacrimal immunoglobulin produced.
  • (13) Poults 3 weeks and older developed temporary tracheal resistance to intranasal challenge following inoculation of either Artvax vaccine or formalin-inactivated Bordetella avium bacterin by the intranasal and eyedrop routes.
  • (14) Other parameters compared were route of delivery, one- and five-minute Apgar score, birth weight, relative birth order and sex.
  • (15) The plan was to provide those survivors with escape routes while also giving law enforcement an entry point.
  • (16) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
  • (17) They were given to volunteers by the subcutaneous route with and without the addition of Al (OH)3 as adjuvant.
  • (18) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
  • (19) The State Department said it would review alternative routes for the pipeline to avoid ecologically sensitive areas of Nebraska .
  • (20) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.