Routine
[ruː'tiːn] or [rʊ'tin]
Definition
(noun.) an unvarying or habitual method or procedure.
(noun.) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program.
Editor: Michel--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Gus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Practice, custom, ordinary way, beaten track, use and wont.
Edited by Daniel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Round, course, succession, order, rule, custom, system, sequence, gradation,rotation, stereotype, prescription, tenor, uniformity, method, settlement,regulation
ANT:Casualty, chance, lottery, fortune, impulse, interest, individuality, merit,spontaneity, alterableness, margin, deviation, modification
Typist: Melba
Definition
n. course of duties: regular course of action: an unvarying round.—adj. keeping an unvarying round.—adj. Routi′nary customary ordinary.—ns. Routineer′; Routi′nism; Routi′nist.
Editor: Monica
Examples
- Notwithstanding the establishment of a regular routine of manufacture and sale, Edison did not cease to experiment for improvement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For our political language was made to express a routine conception of government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For politics whose only ideal is the routine, it is just as well that men shouldn't know what they want or how to express it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When a government routine conflicts with the nation's purposes--the statesman actually makes a virtue of his loyalty to the routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The routine was very much the same as that at the laboratory, in its utter neglect of the clock. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Hence it appeals to thought; it demands that an idea of an end be steadily maintained, so that activity cannot be either routine or capricious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They are opposed to routine which marks an arrest of growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was still suffering from this sudden disturbance of the quiet routine of his life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Herbart's great service lay in taking the work of teaching out of the region of routine and accident. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The conservative who loves his routine is in nine cases out of ten a creature too lazy to change its habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A sudden break was made in the routine of our lives. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But he attended assiduously in his place and learned thoroughly the routine and business of the House. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One could not bear any more of this shame of sordid routine and mechanical nullity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was not interested in doing the simple routine service of a telegrapher, he wanted to see what improvements on it he could make. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The sense of inevitable routines that held all the world in thrall six years ago has gone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their danger to all the routines of ordinary life was not realized until it was too late. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The old routines and the old taboos are breaking up anyway, social forces are emerging which seek autonomy and struggle against slavery to non-human purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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