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Routine
Definitions
- 1 According to established procedure.
- 2 Regular; habitual.
"Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine."
- 3 Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
"Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel."
- 1 found in the ordinary course of events wordnet
- 1 A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. countable, uncountable
- 2 an unvarying or habitual method or procedure wordnet
- 3 A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically. countable, uncountable
"Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine."
- 4 a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program wordnet
- 5 A set piece of an entertainer's act. countable, uncountable
"stand-up comedy routine"
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- 6 a short performance that is part of a longer program wordnet
- 7 A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus. countable, uncountable
- 8 A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine. countable, uncountable
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey).
Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey).
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