Dictionary Definition
rut
Noun
1 a groove or furrow (especially one in soft
earth caused by wheels)
2 a settled and monotonous routine that is hard
to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: groove]
3 applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period
of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat] [ant: anestrus]
Verb
1 be in a state of sexual excitement; of male
mammals
2 hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;
"furrow soil" [syn: furrow, groove] [also: rutting, rutted]
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English
Noun
- Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
- The annual condition of sexual excitement in deer
Translations
Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various
other mammals
The annual condition of sexual excitement in
deer
- Finnish: kiima, kiima-aika
- German: Brunft , Brunst
- To be in the annual rut
Translations
Etymology 2
16th century. Probably from French route ‘road’Noun
Translations
A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct,
thought or feeling
Verb
- To make a furrow
Translations
make a furrow
- German: furchen
Extensive Definition
Rut may refer to:
- Rut (mammalian reproduction), the period of time when antlered ungulates mate
- Rut (roads), a depression or groove worn into a road or path
People with the given name Rut:
- Rut Blees Luxemburg (21st century), German photographer
- Rut Brandt (1920-2006), German writer
People with the surname Rut:
- John Rut (16th century), English mariner
- Tadeusz Rut (1931-2002), Polish athlete
- Tomasz Rut (21st century), Polish painter
See also
rut in Italian: RUT
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alameda, be in heat, beat, beaten path, beaten track,
berm, bezel, bicycle path, boardwalk, bridle path,
bureaucracy,
bureaucratism,
canal, canalize, carve, catwalk, chamfer, channel, chase, chink, chinoiserie, chisel, chuckhole, come in, corrugate, corrugation, crack, cranny, crimp, cut, dado, daily grind, desire, dike, ditch, engrave, engraving, esplanade, estral cycle,
estruate, estruation, estrum, estrus, fastwalk, fever, fever heat, fever of
excitement, fire, flute, fluting, foot pavement, footpath, footway, furrow, fury of lust, garden
path, gash, goffer, gouge, grind, groove, gully, heat, hiking trail, incise, incision, itch for, jog trot,
lust, lust after, mall, microgroove, mudhole, pace, parade, path, pathway, pitchhole, pleat, plow, pothole, prado, promenade, public walk,
rabbet, red tape,
red-tapeism, rifle,
rifling, rote, round, routine, ruck, run, runway, score, scratch, sexual excitement,
sidewalk, sinkhole, slit, squirrel cage, streak, stria, striate, striation, sulcation, sulcus, towing path, towpath, track, trail, treadmill, trench, trottoir, trough, walk, walkway, well-worn groove,
wrinkle