English Explanatory Dictionary

routine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
  3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.
  4. A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.
  5. A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
adj
  1. According to established procedure.
  2. Regular; habitual.
  3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

Pronunciation

/ɹuːˈtiːn/ /ɹuˈtin/ en-us-routine.ogg /ˌruˈʈin/ /rɵˈʈin/ /rʊˈʈin/

Word forms

routine routines more routine most routine

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)).

Synonyms

habit wont ritual rut composition function procedure subroutine by the book conventional traditional halal homodox kosher orthodox allowed customary natural official proper routine general regular usual average basic bog-standard common common as bums common as dirt common as muck common as pig tracks dime a dozen everyday frequent habitual nonrare par for the course pedestrian plain quotidian routinary ten a penny two a penny workaday mundane typical medial commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent expected garden variety improminent normal ordinary plain vanilla run-of-the-mill

Derived words

antiroutine coroutine co-routine function-evaluation routine goroutine malfunction routine non-routine nonroutine preroutine routinal routinary routined routineness routiner routine response behavior routine response behaviour routinise routinish routinism routinist routinization routinize routinely
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