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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!

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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n.

A prescribed, detailed course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
A set of customary and often mechanically performed procedures or activities. See Synonyms at method.
A set piece of entertainment, especially in a nightclub or theater: The audience laughed at the comedian's routine.
Slang A particular kind of behavior or activity: Must you go into your hurt routine when you don't get your way?
Computer Science A set of programming instructions designed to perform a specific limited task.

adj.

In accord with established procedure: a routine check of passports.
Habitual; regular: made his routine trip to the store.
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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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routine
adjective
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]
noun
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

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routine [ruːˈtiːn] noun

a regular, fixed way of doing things
Example: one's daily routine; One needs some routine.

Arabic:	روتين، رَتابَه، وَتيرَه واحِدَه
Chinese (Simplified):	例行公事
Chinese (Traditional):	例行公事
Czech:	běžná praxe
Danish:	rutine
Dutch:	routine
Estonian:	rutiin
Finnish:	rutiini
French:	routine
German:	die Routine
Greek:	ρουτίνα
Hungarian:	rutin
Icelandic:	venja, vani
Indonesian:	kegiatan rutin
Italian:	routine

Japanese:	決まった手順
Korean:	일과, 정해진 일
Latvian:	rutīna; ierastā kārtība
Lithuanian:	nustatyta darbų seka, įprasta tvarka
Norwegian:	rutine, —gang
Polish:	rutyna
Portuguese (Brazil):	rotina
Portuguese (Portugal):	rotina
Romanian:	rutină
Russian:	заведённый порядок; режим
Slovak:	bežná prax
Slovenian:	rutina, navada
Spanish:	rutina
Swedish:	rutin
Turkish:	rutin, program, düzen

routine [ruːˈtiːn] adjective

regular; ordinary
Example: routine work

Arabic:	روتيني: عادي، مُنْتَظَم، رَتيب، وَتيري
Chinese (Simplified):	常规的
Chinese (Traditional):	常規的
Czech:	běžný, obvyklý
Danish:	rutinemæssig; rutine-
Dutch:	routine©
Estonian:	rutiinne
Finnish:	tavanomainen
French:	courant, habituel
German:	Routine-…
Greek:	στερεότυπος, ρουτινιάρικος
Hungarian:	rutin-
Icelandic:	vanaverk
Indonesian:	rutin
Italian:	di routine*

Japanese:	決まりきった
Korean:	일과의, 일상적인
Latvian:	kārtējais; parasts
Lithuanian:	eilinis, įprastinis
Norwegian:	rutine-, rutinemessig
Polish:	rutynowy, szablonowy
Portuguese (Brazil):	rotineiro
Portuguese (Portugal):	de rotina
Romanian:	obişnuit, de rutină
Russian:	повседневный
Slovak:	bežný, obvyklý
Slovenian:	vsakdanji, rutinski
Spanish:	rutinario, de rutina, habitual
Swedish:	rutin-
Turkish:	rutin, alışılmış

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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.

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