rut

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The bicyclist made a rut in the fresh snow with his fat tire bike.

noun

The definition of a rut is a groove or track in the ground, a routine way of acting, or a period of sexual excitement in animals, especially males.
1. An example of a rut is a track in the ground from a bike.
2. An example of a rut is following the same routine each and every day.
3. An example of a rut is a period of sexual excitement in a male goat.

verb

Rut is defined as to make a groove.
An example of rut is to make a track in the mud with a bicycle.

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rut

a groove, furrow, or track, esp. one made in the ground by the passage of wheeled vehicles
a fixed, routine course of action, thought, etc., esp. one regarded as monotonous

Origin of rut

from uncertain or unknown; perhaps Middle French route, route

transitive verb

rut′ted, rut′ting

to make a rut or ruts in

the periodic sexual excitement, or heat, of certain mammals: applied esp. to males, often specif. to those male ruminants in which it occurs once a year
the period during which this occurs

Origin of rut

Middle English rutte from Old French ruit from Classical Latin rugitus, a roaring (as of deer in rut) from rugire, to roar from Indo-European an unverified form reuk- from echoic base an unverified form reu-, to roar, cry hoarsely from source Old English ryn, Old Church Slavonic rykati, to roar

intransitive verb

rut′ted, rut′ting

to be in rut

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rut

noun

A sunken track or groove made by the passage of vehicles.
An uninspired routine or pattern of behavior that one continues unthinkingly or because change is difficult.

transitive verb

rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts

To make ruts in (a path, for example).

Origin of rut

Possibly alteration of route

noun

A regularly recurring condition of fertility during which breeding occurs in certain mammals, especially deer and various other ungulates: a buck in rut.
The period during which this condition occurs.

intransitive verb

rut·ted, rut·ting, ruts

To be in rut.

Origin of rut

Middle English rutte from Old French rut from Vulgar Latin rūgitus from rūgere to roar from Latin rūgīre to roar

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Noun

(plural ruts)

(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

(intransitive) to be in the annual rut
(intransitive) to have sexual intercourse
To mount or cover during copulation.

Origin

Old French "˜noise, roar, bellowing', from Latin rugitus, from rugire "˜to roar'

Noun

(plural ruts)

A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road
A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
A dull routine
Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

To make a furrow

Origin

16th century. Probably from French route "˜road'

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rut - Medical Definition

n.

A regularly recurring condition of fertility during which breeding occurs in certain mammals, especially deer and various other ungulates: a buck in rut.
The period during which this condition occurs.

v.

To be in rut.