Rut
[rʌt]
Definition
(noun.) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; 'they fell into a conversational rut'.
(noun.) a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
(verb.) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals.
Typist: Ralph--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
(n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
(v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
(v. t.) To cover in copulation.
(n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
(v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
Checker: Rudolph
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Track of a wheel.[2]. Rote (of the sea).
Checker: Millicent
Definition
n. the noise made by deer during sexual excitement: the periodic time of heat of animals.—v.i. to be in heat.—v.t. (rare) to copulate with.—adj. Rut′tish inclined to rut: lustful.—n. Rut′tishness libidinousness.
n. a track left by a wheel: an established course.—v.t. to form ruts in:—pr.p. rut′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. rut′ted.—adj. Rut′ty full of ruts.
Checked by Carmen
Examples
- Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Born in a rut, and you can't root 'em out of it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The wheels only pulled sideways against the ruts. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But the phrase is also used to mean ruts, routine ways, with loss of freshness, open-mindedness, and originality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned from the high road into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Maura