Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season; the state or season in which this is experienced.

    Brunft, Brunst

    полова́я охо́таpolovája oxóta, полово́е возбужде́ниеpolovóje vozbuždénije, гонgon

    applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

  2. (countable, uncountable)The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.

    Near-synonyms: grunt, roar

  3. (countable, uncountable)Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.

  5. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.

    Furche, Spur, Spurrille

    колея́kolejá, борозда́borozdá

    коліяkolija, вибоїнаvybojina, борознаborozna

    a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)

  6. (figuratively)A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.

    Trott

    рути́наrutína, привы́чкаprivýčka

    рутинаrutyna, звичкаzvyčka

  7. (figuratively)A dull routine.

    Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.

    a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Don't get stuck in a rut.

    Не піддавайся рутині.

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  2. Tom thinks that we're in some kind of rut.

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  3. You're in a rut.

    deDu hast dich eingefahren.

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  4. I'm stuck in a rut.

    deIch bin in einer Routine gefangen.

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  5. Are you in a rut?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground:
fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling:
Русский
By meaning 3
sexual desire or oestrus:
furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground:
fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
sexual desire or oestrus:
furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground:
fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling:

Origin

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bel

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

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Forms

plural: ruts
Singularrut
Pluralruts

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape:groove
  • applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity:estrusoestrusheat

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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