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rou⋅tine

  [roo-teen]
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–noun
1. a customary or regular course of procedure.
2. commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office.
3. regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
4. an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!
5. Computers.
a. a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.
b. a series of operations performed by the computer.
6. an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine.
–adjective
7. of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine: routine duties.
8. dull or uninteresting; commonplace.
Origin:
1670–80; < F, deriv. of route route

Related forms:
rou⋅tine⋅ly, adverb
rou⋅tine⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
8. habitual, ordinary, typical.
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rou·tine   (rōō-tēn')   
n.  
  1. A prescribed, detailed course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  2. A set of customary and often mechanically performed procedures or activities. See Synonyms at method.
  3. A set piece of entertainment, especially in a nightclub or theater: The audience laughed at the comedian's routine.
  4. Slang A particular kind of behavior or activity: Must you go into your hurt routine when you don't get your way?
  5. Computer Science A set of programming instructions designed to perform a specific limited task.
adj.  
  1. In accord with established procedure: a routine check of passports.
  2. Habitual; regular: made his routine trip to the store.
  3. Having no special quality; ordinary: a routine day.

[French, from route, route, from Old French; see route.]
rou·tine'ly adv., rou·tin'ism n., rou·tin'ist n.
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Routine

Rou*tine"\, n. [F., fr. route a path, way, road. See Route, Roterepetition.]

1. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.

2. Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : routine
Spanish: rutina,
German: die Routine,
Japanese: 決まった手順
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routine  (n.)
1676, from Fr. routine "usual course of action, beaten path" from route "way, path, course" (see route) + subst. suffix -ine. Theatrical sense is from 1926. The adj. is attested from 1817, from the noun.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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routine
subroutine

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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