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routine

noun
/ɹuːˈtiːn/UK/ɹuˈtin/US/ˌruˈʈin/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).

  1. derived from rupta via

Definitions

  1. A course of action to be followed regularly

    A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.

  2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

    • Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
    • It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

  3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.

    • stand-up comedy routine
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.

    2. A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task

      A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

    3. According to established procedure.

    4. Regular

      Regular; habitual.

      • Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine.

    5. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

      • Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA