Direction vs. Route — What's the Difference?

A course along which someone or something moves

A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another

The management or guidance of someone or something

A highway

The management, supervision, or guidance of a group or operation

A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.

The art or action of directing a musical, theatrical, or cinematic production.

A means of reaching a goal

An authoritative order or command

(Football) A pass pattern.

(Music) A word or phrase in a score indicating how a passage is to be played or sung.

To send or forward by a specific route.

Directions Instructions in how to do something or reach a destination

A course or way which is traveled or passed.

The course along which a person or thing is moving or must move to reach a destination

A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.

The point toward which a person or thing faces or is oriented

A road or path; often specifically a highway.

A course or line of development; a tendency toward a particular end or goal

(figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.

A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).

(historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.

A general trend for future action.

(computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.

Guidance, instruction.

(horse racing) A race longer than one mile.

The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.

(transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.

(dated) The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.

(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.

(archaic) A person's address.

To send (information) through a router.

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o public affairs or of a bank.

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.

An established line of travel or access

The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.

An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.

Send documents or materials to appropriate destinations

The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

Send via a specific route

The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; - distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.

Divert in a specified direction;

A line leading to a place or point;

The spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves;

A general course along which something has a tendency to develop;

Something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action

The act of managing something;

A message describing how something is to be done;

The act of setting and holding a course;

A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something;

The concentration of attention or energy on something;