routine.
A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word 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)).
According to established procedure.
Regular; habitual.
Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
Boringly predictable, monotonous, and unchanging
I found the work pretty routine.
Where this word 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)).
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