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routine

Pronunciation: /ɹuːˈtiːn/

The English word “routine” has 9 meanings listed here.

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.

adjective

  1. According to established procedure.
  2. Regular; habitual.
  3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
  4. Boringly predictable, monotonous, and unchanging

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)).

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