Routine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A prescribed, detailed course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  • n. A set of customary and often mechanically performed procedures or activities. See Synonyms at method.
  • n. A set piece of entertainment, especially in a nightclub or theater: The audience laughed at the comedian's routine.
  • n. Slang A particular kind of behavior or activity: Must you go into your hurt routine when you don't get your way?
  • n. 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.
  • adj. Habitual; regular: made his routine trip to the store.
  • adj. Having no special quality; ordinary: a routine day.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure
  • n. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically
  • n. A set piece of an entertainer's act
  • n. A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine
  • adj. According to established procedure.
  • adj. Regular; habitual.
  • adj. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
  • n. Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A customary course of action or round of occupation; a way or method systematically followed; regular recurrence of the same acts or kind of action: as, the routine of official duties; to weary of a monotonous routine.
  • n. Fixed habit or method in action; the habitual doing of the same things in the same way; unvarying procedure or conduct.
  • Habitually practised or acting in the same way; following or consisting in an unvarying round: as, routine methods or duties; a routine official.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program
  • adj. found in the ordinary course of events
  • n. a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
  • n. an unvarying or habitual method or procedure
  • Equivalent
    ordinary   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    course    round    path    rut    rota    groove    monotonous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aileen    Amin    Arleen    Augustin    Bean    Cathleen    Celine    Charlene    Christine    Clymene   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    normal    daily    simple    preliminary    standard    code