Dictionary Definition
routine adj
1 occurring at fixed times or predictable
intervals; "made her routine trip to the store"
2 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, mundane, quotidian, unremarkable, workaday]
Noun
1 an unvarying or habitual method of procedure
[syn: modus
operandi]
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,
number, turn, bit]
3 a set sequence of steps, part of larger
computer program [syn: subroutine, subprogram, procedure, function]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Routine
English
Noun
- A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure
- 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.
- A set piece of an entertainer's act
- A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine
Translations
course of action to be followed regularly; a
standard procedure
- German: Routine
set of normal procedures, often performed
mechanically
- German: Routine
set piece of an entertainer's act
computing: set of instructions designed to
perform a specific task
- German: Routine
Adjective
- According to established procedure
- Regular; habitual
- Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others
according to established procedure
- German: routinemäßig
regular; habitual
- German: routinemäßig
ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all
the others
Extensive Definition
Routine may refer to:
- Choreographed routine, an orchestrated dance involving several performers
- Comedy routine, a comedic act or part of an act
- Visual routine, a visual cognitive means of extracting information from a scene
- Routine activity theory, a sub-field of criminology
- Routine (SWT), the first of four stories in the second issue of the Star Wars Tales series
- Routine Irregular, the 2002 debut album by the British metal band Fony
- Routine Valor, a 2006 Star Wars comic book by Dark Horse Comics
- Subroutine, a reused piece of computer code
- Coroutine, a generalized reentrant computer subroutine having multiple entry points
- Ethnomethodology, a sociological discipline focused on the methods groups use to create societal order
routine in German: Routine
routine in French: Routine
routine in Japanese: ルーチン
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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raiser, custom, customary, cycle, daily grind, deployment, descent, designated, disposal, disposition, divertimento, divertissement, dominant, drill, drone, endless belt, endless
round, epidemic,
epilogue, everyday, exode, exodus, expository scene,
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layout, line, line of action, lineage, lines, lineup, manner, manner of working,
many, many times, marshaling, mean, means, mechanical, medial, median, mediocre, medium, method, methodical, methodology,
middle-of-the-road, middling, mode, mode of operation, mode of
procedure, moderate,
modus operandi, monotone, monotonous, nexus, normal, not rare, number, of common occurrence,
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red-tapeism, regnant,
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stand-up comedy act, standard, steady, stereotyped, string, striptease, structure, style, succession, swath, symmetrical, symmetry, system, systematic, tack, technique, tedious, the drill, the how, the
way of, thick-coming, thing, thread, tier, tiresome, tone, track, train, tranquillity, treadmill, trite, turn, unchanging, uneventful, uniform, uniformity, unimaginative, uninteresting, unvaried, unvarying, usage, usual, way, well-ordered, well-regulated,
well-trodden, well-worn, well-worn groove, windrow, wise, wont, wonted