rou·tine
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| 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.
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| 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. |
| 7. | of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine: routine duties. |
| 8. | dull or uninteresting; commonplace. |
—Related forms
rou·tine·ly, adverb
rou·tine·ness, noun
—Synonyms 8. habitual, ordinary, typical.
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routine
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| rou·tine
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n.
adj.
[French, from route, route, from Old French; see route.] rou·tine'ly adv., rou·tin'ism n., rou·tin'ist n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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 |
| routine | |
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| 1. | found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday] |
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| 1. | an unvarying or habitual method or procedure |
| 2. | a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did" [syn: act] |
| 3. | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
routine [ruːˈtiːn] noun
a regular, fixed way of doing things
Example: one's daily routine; One needs some routine.
routine [ruːˈtiːn] adjectiveExample: one's daily routine; One needs some routine.
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regular; ordinary
Example: routine work
Example: routine work
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
routine
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| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
Routine
Rote\, n. [OF. rote, F. route, road, path. See Route, and cf. Rut a furrow, Routine.] A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote. --Swift. till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote. --Chaucer. Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell. --Shak.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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