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routine

[ roo-teen ]

noun

  1. a customary or regular course of procedure.
  2. commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity:

    the routine of an office.

  3. regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
  4. an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response:

    Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!

  5. Computers.
    1. a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.
    2. a series of operations performed by the computer.
  6. an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer:

    a comic routine; a dance routine.



adjective

  1. of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine:

    routine duties.

  2. dull or uninteresting; commonplace.

    Synonyms: , ,

routine

/ ːˈپː /

noun

  1. a usual or regular method of procedure, esp one that is unvarying
  2. computing a program or part of a program performing a specific function

    an output routine

    an input routine

  3. a set sequence of dance steps
  4. informal.
    a hackneyed or insincere speech
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of routine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • dzˈپԱ, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • dz·پԱ· adverb
  • dz·پԱ·Ա noun
  • ԴDz·dz·پԱ adjective noun
  • ܲ·dz·پԱ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of routine1

First recorded in 1670–80; from French, derivative of route route
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Word History and Origins

Origin of routine1

C17: from Old French, from route a customary way, route
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Example Sentences

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I’ve got one of those bamboo whisks, and I like the whole routine of boiling water and then whisking in the matcha powder.

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The bat was discovered on April 17 and taken in for testing as part of the county’s routine rabies surveillance effort, according to the OC Health Care Agency.

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She recalled going for the routine 12-week scan at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

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It issued a statement to ABC7 saying that it is not able to provide specific information on routine daily operations due to the tempo of the agency’s work and high volume of requests it receives.

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The Los Angeles Times found that the federal government’s pumping facility had been delivering less water because of routine maintenance.

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