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rou⋅tine

[roo-teen]
–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


rou⋅tine⋅ly, adverb
rou⋅tine⋅ness, noun


8. habitual, ordinary, typical.
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.

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.
Language Translation for : routine
Spanish: rutina,
German: die Routine,
Japanese: 決まった手順

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.

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