routine
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routine
- /ɹuːˈtiːn/ UK
- /ɹuˈtin/ US
Rhymes with -iːn
Where it comes from
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)).
noun routines
- 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. stand-up comedy routine
- A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.
- A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
adjective more routine · most routine
- According to established procedure. "Morning, inspector," affably remarked the cripple—he had not failed to observe the badge—"rather early for your job, eh? Nothing wrong with our supply up here, I hope, eh?" "Nothing at all, sir," said the inspector. "Just an ordinary routine round. We do them regularly."
- Regular; habitual. Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine.
- Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others. Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.
- Boringly predictable, monotonous, and unchanging I found the work pretty routine.
