Procedure
[prə'siːdʒə] or [prə'sidʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings.
(noun.) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; 'the procedure of obtaining a driver's license'; 'it was a process of trial and error'.
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Definition
(n.) The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
(n.) A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
(n.) That which results; issue; product.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Conduct, practice, course, process, management, course of action, mode of operation.[2]. Act, transaction, deed, action, performance, proceeding, measure, step.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Proceeding, act, progress, {course_of_conduct}, process,[See ACT]
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Examples
- So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This was another common procedure on the part of the ladies of the Hole, when heated by verbal or fistic altercation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I started to carry out the procedure when, upon opening the oil-cup, the steam rushed out with a tremendous noise, nearly knocking me off the engine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sarkoja thought it best, she answered, her face betokening her disapproval of the procedure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The cause of this procedure lies in following tradition, rather than in conscious adherence to a dualistic philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Even if all students were embryonic scientific specialists, it is questionable whether this is the most effective procedure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was no orderly procedure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I grant that in the rigid political conditions prevailing to-day a new issue is an embarrassment, perhaps a hindrance to the procedure of political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such a method was the only alternative to the imposition of dogma as truth, a procedure which reduced mind to the formal act of acquiescing in truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He develops a plan of procedure, a method of dealing with the situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Goebel case emphasizes two defects in the court procedure in patent cases. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This procedure is properly stigmatized as soft pedagogy; as a soup-kitchen theory of education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Exceedingly small charges of dynamite had to be used and the procedure conducted with the utmost caution. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is a very dangerous procedure. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I have not done that because this rational procedure inverts the natural order of things and develops all kinds of theoretical tangles and pseudo-problems. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Accordingly, recognized procedures indicate to the physician what inquiries to set on foot for himself, what measures to try. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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