routinen.adj.

Brit.

/ruːˈtiːn/,

/rʊˈtiːn/, U.S.

/ruˈtin/

Forms: 1600s routin, 1600s–1700s rotine, 1600s– routine.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French routine.

Etymology: < French routine, †rotine acquisition of skills through practice (as opposed to academic study) (1559), regularly followed, often unvarying procedure (1715) < route route n.¹ + -ine -ine suffix⁴.

A. n.

a. A regularly followed procedure; an established or prescribed way of doing something; a more or less mechanical or unvarying way of performing certain actions or duties.Often with the implication of a lack of excitement or variety; cf. sense B. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > a routine

routine1661

rota1673

rut1839

groove1842

1661 J. Evelyn tr. G. Naudé Instr. conc. Erecting of Libr. 23 By those who have the routine [Fr. ruotine], and are vers'd in Books.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 29 The general Business of the World lies, for the most Part, in Rotines and Forms.

1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 June (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1758 Haunt the Courts particularly, in order to get that routine.

1777 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 247 I have got into the old routine of war office and Congress.

1781 W. Black Observ. Med. & Polit. on Small-pox (ed. 2) iii. 251 All our present medicines cried up for the cure of cancers, appear to me of..little real efficacy..: they are jaded routines, hackneyed repetaturs, and nauseous trash.

1808 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. i. 31 Our class was, in the usual routine of the school, turned over to..the Rector.

1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 126 More intimately acquainted with the routine of iron manufacturing than any other person.

1851 G. H. Dadd Amer. Reformed Cattle Doctor 48 It [sc. a portion of the food] is at length swallowed a second time, and goes through the same routine as that just described.

1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters i. 8 They had settled down into a routine, as had many nature-folk the world over before European industrialism touched them in the last century.

1935 M. McLuhan Let. 8 June (1987) 70 I seem to get nothing done in the midst of the most favourable routine.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 4 Apr. 767/1 There are many daily routines of a technical nature that have to be done in hospitals.

2008 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl with Dragon Tattoo ii. 37 It was evident that Salander had no intention of adapting to Milton's office routines.

b. As a mass noun: regular, unvarying, or mechanical performance of actions or duties; established or prescribed practice or conduct.Often with the implication of a lack of excitement or variety; cf. sense B. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine

rote1581

route1725

routine1760

habituality1801

automatism1882

mechanicalism1903

autopilot1967

1760 W. Windham Plan Discipline Norfolk Militia (new ed.) 157 Not considering that this is all mere routine; and that if they were in the least to change the order of their exercise..they would be all in confusion.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 25 The laws of insipid and dull routine.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. iv. 39 He was an honest man, but the harness of routine had rusted on his back.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. vii. §5 129 Any process which cannot be reduced almost to an affair of memory and routine.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. i. viii. 87 The succession to the English crown had not yet settled into fixed routine.

1934 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 18 Oct. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 45 One gets into regular routine and the days whizz by.

1951 H. Wouk Caine Mutiny (1952) v. xxxiv. 403 He shook with boiling impotent rage at the flummery of court routine.

2006 Prediction June 61/1 After a fairly lengthy phase of routine and drudgery, things begin to gather momentum.

†2. A set form of words; spec. a set series of phrases, manner of speaking, etc., employed without proper consideration or original thought. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > mode of expression

manner of speakinga1387

termsc1400

parlancec1475

locution1483

diction1563

couching1571

dictamenta1572

dialect1579

style1594

phraseology1604

phrasing1611

expression1628

language1643

wording1649

routine1676

mode1779

verbiage1792

parle1793

verbiagerie1817

vocabulation1859

phraseography1899

lexis1950

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > series of

routine1822

1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso i. 3 To have a form, a fashion of Wit, a Rotine of speaking, which they get by imitation.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 149 [To] speak by Repartee-rotines Out of the most authentic of Romances.

1680 R. L'Estrange Casuist Uncas'd (ed. 2) Pref. sig. A4^v They have a certain Routin of Words, and Sayings, that have the tone of Magique in the very Sound of them.

1781 Reveries of Heart I. 184 The tender homage, which during courtship he had pretended to pay her, was only a rotine of words without meaning.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 196 A routine of high-flown phrases.

3. A set sequence forming all or part of a performance by an actor, entertainer, etc., typically rehearsed in advance and performed on several occasions. Frequently with preceding distinguishing word or phrase. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > item in

turn1715

act1828

routine1866

number1908

shtick1948

1866 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 15 Dec. 195/1 At Wallack's the opening routine was markedly broken in upon..by the first appearance of Mr. Lester Wallack, as Young Marlowe.

1909 Lexington (Kentucky) Herald 18 May 10/5 Both fellows have just finished the season with Field's Minstrels and their routine includes several fancy steps refreshingly original.

1928 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 20 Nov. 11/4 (caption) We figured out a little comedy routine with you as a lion-tamer and Joe doing the lion!

1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy xiv. 92 Do you know the blackmail routine that Jarrold gave me tonight?

1959 N. C. Loken & R. J. Willoughby Compl. Bk. Gymnastics xvii. 196/1 For example, a fast, snappy mass tumbling act would be good following a slow, precise doubles balancing routine.

1973 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 30 Dec. 20/5 Jewison's use of modern tanks..and frenetic dance routines.

2009 Church Times 6 Feb. 35/4 This involves filming carefully choreographed routines as the participants mime to music.

4. A hackneyed and predictable formula of speech or manner of behaviour. Frequently with preceding distinguishing word or phrase.

ΚΠ

1922 D. McGibeny Slag v. 82 ‘When I was your age I was at work by six-thirty. What is more, I had two thousand dollars in the bank, saved from wages of twelve dollars a week.’ Alec, finding his uncle going over the same old routine, had ceased to listen.

1939 Life 16 Jan. 10/2 (advt.) He launched into his old routine and conjured up nostalgic pictures of his mother out in the garden patch at day-break.

1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time viii. 80 She's well into her Florence Nightingale routine.

1983 N. Bawden Ice House ii. x. 51 He goes into the tortured soul routine, how unspeakably guilty he feels,..mostly to avoid answering awkward questions.

2007 E. Morrison Swung (2008) i. 22 Doing her work-buddy routine, wanting to ask her how it was going, gossiping about who'd been fired and yah-de-yah.

5. Computing. A set of instructions for performing a specific task; a program; (in later use) = subroutine n.assembly, utility routine, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > set of instructions

routine1945

procedure1946

subroutinec1946

subprogramme1947

block1948

module1963

partition1971

script1978

1945 J. P. Eckert et al. Descr. ENIAC (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) b3 Suppose it is desired to..carry out a computational routine of m line steps, print the final results, and then perform the same routine n times.

1951 M. V. Wilkes et al. Prepar. Programs for Electronic Digital Computer i. iii. 22 A ‘closed’ subroutine is one which is called into use by a special group of orders incorporated in the master routine or main program.

1967 Technol. Week 23 Jan. 11/2 (advt.) Software for Sigma 5 includes..a library of mathematical, business and utility routines.

1980 K. D. Wise Microcomputers v. 102 Transfers of data or control between routines should occur only when the programmer specifically requests them.

2000 N.Y. Times 6 July g3/3 Every program or software routine that might conflict with the installation of a new operating system.

B. adj.

1. Performed as or forming part of a routine (in sense A. 1a); performed in a more or less identical way on repeated occasions, typically without the need for innovation; performed, given, or carried out by rule or as a matter of course.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine

routine1744

routinary1807

formal1818

routinish1830

jog-jog1837

clockworky1864

groove-like1902

1744 Med. Ess. & Observ. (rev. ed.) V. ii. xlix. 558 Those..who have observed the great Difference there is in Diseases at different Times..and who are not, in short, irretrievably lost in a Routine Practice.

1766 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 28/1 We all know..it requires ‘no conjuration, or mighty magic’ to go through the common routine business of office.

1773 J. Williams Treat. Medicinal Virtues Mineral Waters German Spa 44 Follow the old rotine custom, however absurd, and sometimes dangerous, it is found to be.

1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. xxxvii. 3 Somerset resolved..to place the Great Seal in the hands of some one who might do its routine duties.

1890 Lancet 16 Aug. 339/1 The routine modes of treatment, warm baths, &c., were ordered to be tried.

1935 Discovery Apr. 110/2 It is a routine test to take a radiograph of each value on completion.

1951 Life 17 Dec. 31/2 He went to the debriefing shed and made a routine report on the railroad bombing mission.

1996 Which? Apr. 14/2 There is now growing interest in routine screening for other conditions, such as high cholesterol and prostate and bowel cancer.

2. Of an ordinary or undistinguished type or quality; usual, typical; average, mundane; run of the mill; lacking excitement or variety, humdrum.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace

commona1382

ordinarc1400

plainc1430

famosec1449

famous1528

vulgar1580

ordinary1590

undistinguished1600

indistinguished1608

commonplace1616

unremarkable1628

irremarkable1635

bread and cheese1643

incurious1747

ordinary-looking1798

routine1826

indistinctive1846

common-seeming1857

bread-and-butterish1893

bread-and-buttery1893

timeworn1901

day-to-day1919

vanilla1972

standard1977

1826 Q. Oriental Mag. Sept. 103 The monotony of his routine existence at Otahity appears to have extended to the Diary of our friend Maximo.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 177 The routine life..would be unendurably dull.

1940 H. Spencer Art & Life W. Shakespeare v. 197 No routine braggart-soldier he.

1977 Time 11 Apr. 24/1 Flying has become so routine that the notably pragmatic insurance companies charge pilots no more for policies than they do ribbon clerks.

1988 Jrnl. Royal Musical Assoc. 113 235 Scipione Gonzaga's letters to Mantua are of a fairly routine kind.

2009 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 16/1 The more the federal government does in routine emergencies, the greater the odds of catastrophic failure in a big disaster.

Compounds

Instrumental, as routine-bound, routine-governed, routine-ridden, routine-sodden, etc., adjs.

ΚΠ

1857 Merry's Museum & Parley's Mag. 33 45/1 He couldn't..have introduced a more genial, cosy arrangement into the routine-ridden, war-wasted year.

1865 Daily News 7 Mar. 5/4 The dazzling effect of Bonaparte's victories over the old fashioned routine-bound armies of Germany.

1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 347/1 The first two weeks seemed to make his old regular, routine-governed life a thing of the far past.

1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 19 June 453/2 Routine-chained staffs worked on into the night.

1920 Contemp. Rev. June 866 The Soviet authority had to destroy everything in this department—the laws themselves, the routine-sodden institutions.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media x. 103 The need for advanced knowledge presses on the spirits of the most routine-ridden minds.

2006 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 12 Feb. a1 It was hard work. Hot work. Routine-ridden. Mind-numbing.

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routinev.

Brit.

/ruːˈtiːn/,

/rʊˈtiːn/, U.S.

/ruˈtin/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: routine n.

Etymology: < routine n. Compare French routiner to practise routinely (early 17th cent.). Compare slightly earlier routinize v.

†1. intransitive. To follow a routine. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1844 Knickerbocker Nov. 414 Separate from my soul's dearer half, routining daily through the same dull, sickening round..I should sink beneath the load of ennui.

a1887 N. J. Burton Yale Lect. on Preaching (1888) 395 The men must drill themselves till they get up an instinct; they must routine and routine and routine, I do not know how many hundreds of times.

†a. transitive. Of an actor: to play (a part) in a routine or conventional manner. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > act in specific manner

misact1609

tragedize1755

overact1760

overplay1767

to walk through ——1824

underact1847

to play down to ——1880

routine1897

underplay1897

milk1921

ham1933

hoke1935

to camp it up1957

to play for laughs (also a laugh)1963

undercharacterize1970

1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 18 Dec. 712/1 No actor can possibly play leading parts of the first order six nights a week all the year round unless he underplays them, or routines them mechanically in the old stock manner.

b. transitive. To link or unite (aspects of a performance) into a routine (routine n. 3); to write or construct a routine for (a performance).

ΚΠ

1928 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 10 Nov. 6/2 The Martini headliner rates among the beat dancers of vaudeville and is particularly adept at routining eccentric steps.

1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues iv. 39 I was consulted by Whalen and Martelle relative to routining their shows.

1948 ‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing iv. 43 There are a variety of typical steps which can be routined at the will of the dancer.

1959 F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) xx. 227 I didn't have time to routine a new set of ticky-tacky taps each week.

1982 C. Casady & J. Davidson Singing Entertainer viii. 172 After you've routined the song(s) you're going to record, you..should prepare lead sheets.

2009 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 10 She's routined her song that many times for the video I don't think her own performance would have been an issue.

3. transitive. To organize into a standard or set procedure; to make subject to or incorporate into a routine. Also with into.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > give structure to or organize > organize in specific way

scientize1919

routine1920

1920 D. Kennedy Better Foremanship xi. 35 The administration of the details must be routined and taken care of by some mechanical means, as a filing system.

1931 Fortune Aug. 75/1 He had discovered that by routining each day into a set number of hours, his productivity was increased.

1935 Helena (Montana) Independent 4 Feb. 4/1 The overheads will be reduced by routining the job.

1959 R. Condon Manchurian Candidate ii. 31 Staying with each team through the originating processes until he had assured himself that all had been routined with smoothness.

2006 C. Herman Prophets & Profits viii. 308 Schools develop ethos and culture, practices become routined.

Derivatives

rouˈtining n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > production of performance

production1786

mounting1828

setting1885

routining1923

1923 G. B. Clarkson Industr. Amer. in World War xxxi. 481 Conceived as the ‘routining’ of a nation, it became also its discipline.

1976 W. Goldman Magic ii. 65 He spent the intervening days working out his routining. Start with the flashy stuff or save those for the end?

2002 W. R. Bauer Open Door (2003) v. 77 From the routining a blueprint emerged that enabled Wess to fit the charts around what Carter would sing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	routine
释义	routinen.adj. Brit. /ruːˈtiːn/, /rʊˈtiːn/, U.S. /ruˈtin/ Forms: 1600s routin, 1600s–1700s rotine, 1600s– routine. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French routine. Etymology: < French routine, †rotine acquisition of skills through practice (as opposed to academic study) (1559), regularly followed, often unvarying procedure (1715) < route route n.¹ + -ine -ine suffix⁴. A. n. 1. a. A regularly followed procedure; an established or prescribed way of doing something; a more or less mechanical or unvarying way of performing certain actions or duties.Often with the implication of a lack of excitement or variety; cf. sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > a routine routine1661 rota1673 rut1839 groove1842 1661 J. Evelyn tr. G. Naudé Instr. conc. Erecting of Libr. 23 By those who have the routine [Fr. ruotine], and are vers'd in Books. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 29 The general Business of the World lies, for the most Part, in Rotines and Forms. 1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 June (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1758 Haunt the Courts particularly, in order to get that routine. 1777 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 247 I have got into the old routine of war office and Congress. 1781 W. Black Observ. Med. & Polit. on Small-pox (ed. 2) iii. 251 All our present medicines cried up for the cure of cancers, appear to me of..little real efficacy..: they are jaded routines, hackneyed repetaturs, and nauseous trash. 1808 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. i. 31 Our class was, in the usual routine of the school, turned over to..the Rector. 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 126 More intimately acquainted with the routine of iron manufacturing than any other person. 1851 G. H. Dadd Amer. Reformed Cattle Doctor 48 It [sc. a portion of the food] is at length swallowed a second time, and goes through the same routine as that just described. 1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters i. 8 They had settled down into a routine, as had many nature-folk the world over before European industrialism touched them in the last century. 1935 M. McLuhan Let. 8 June (1987) 70 I seem to get nothing done in the midst of the most favourable routine. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 4 Apr. 767/1 There are many daily routines of a technical nature that have to be done in hospitals. 2008 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl with Dragon Tattoo ii. 37 It was evident that Salander had no intention of adapting to Milton's office routines. b. As a mass noun: regular, unvarying, or mechanical performance of actions or duties; established or prescribed practice or conduct.Often with the implication of a lack of excitement or variety; cf. sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine rote1581 route1725 routine1760 habituality1801 automatism1882 mechanicalism1903 autopilot1967 1760 W. Windham Plan Discipline Norfolk Militia (new ed.) 157 Not considering that this is all mere routine; and that if they were in the least to change the order of their exercise..they would be all in confusion. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 25 The laws of insipid and dull routine. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. iv. 39 He was an honest man, but the harness of routine had rusted on his back. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. vii. §5 129 Any process which cannot be reduced almost to an affair of memory and routine. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. i. viii. 87 The succession to the English crown had not yet settled into fixed routine. 1934 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 18 Oct. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 45 One gets into regular routine and the days whizz by. 1951 H. Wouk Caine Mutiny (1952) v. xxxiv. 403 He shook with boiling impotent rage at the flummery of court routine. 2006 Prediction June 61/1 After a fairly lengthy phase of routine and drudgery, things begin to gather momentum. †2. A set form of words; spec. a set series of phrases, manner of speaking, etc., employed without proper consideration or original thought. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > mode of expression manner of speakinga1387 termsc1400 parlancec1475 locution1483 diction1563 couching1571 dictamenta1572 dialect1579 style1594 phraseology1604 phrasing1611 expression1628 language1643 wording1649 routine1676 mode1779 verbiage1792 parle1793 verbiagerie1817 vocabulation1859 phraseography1899 lexis1950 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > series of routine1822 1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso i. 3 To have a form, a fashion of Wit, a Rotine of speaking, which they get by imitation. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 149 [To] speak by Repartee-rotines Out of the most authentic of Romances. 1680 R. L'Estrange Casuist Uncas'd (ed. 2) Pref. sig. A4^v They have a certain Routin of Words, and Sayings, that have the tone of Magique in the very Sound of them. 1781 Reveries of Heart I. 184 The tender homage, which during courtship he had pretended to pay her, was only a rotine of words without meaning. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 196 A routine of high-flown phrases. 3. A set sequence forming all or part of a performance by an actor, entertainer, etc., typically rehearsed in advance and performed on several occasions. Frequently with preceding distinguishing word or phrase. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > item in turn1715 act1828 routine1866 number1908 shtick1948 1866 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 15 Dec. 195/1 At Wallack's the opening routine was markedly broken in upon..by the first appearance of Mr. Lester Wallack, as Young Marlowe. 1909 Lexington (Kentucky) Herald 18 May 10/5 Both fellows have just finished the season with Field's Minstrels and their routine includes several fancy steps refreshingly original. 1928 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 20 Nov. 11/4 (caption) We figured out a little comedy routine with you as a lion-tamer and Joe doing the lion! 1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy xiv. 92 Do you know the blackmail routine that Jarrold gave me tonight? 1959 N. C. Loken & R. J. Willoughby Compl. Bk. Gymnastics xvii. 196/1 For example, a fast, snappy mass tumbling act would be good following a slow, precise doubles balancing routine. 1973 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 30 Dec. 20/5 Jewison's use of modern tanks..and frenetic dance routines. 2009 Church Times 6 Feb. 35/4 This involves filming carefully choreographed routines as the participants mime to music. 4. A hackneyed and predictable formula of speech or manner of behaviour. Frequently with preceding distinguishing word or phrase. ΚΠ 1922 D. McGibeny Slag v. 82 ‘When I was your age I was at work by six-thirty. What is more, I had two thousand dollars in the bank, saved from wages of twelve dollars a week.’ Alec, finding his uncle going over the same old routine, had ceased to listen. 1939 Life 16 Jan. 10/2 (advt.) He launched into his old routine and conjured up nostalgic pictures of his mother out in the garden patch at day-break. 1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time viii. 80 She's well into her Florence Nightingale routine. 1983 N. Bawden Ice House ii. x. 51 He goes into the tortured soul routine, how unspeakably guilty he feels,..mostly to avoid answering awkward questions. 2007 E. Morrison Swung (2008) i. 22 Doing her work-buddy routine, wanting to ask her how it was going, gossiping about who'd been fired and yah-de-yah. 5. Computing. A set of instructions for performing a specific task; a program; (in later use) = subroutine n.assembly, utility routine, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > set of instructions routine1945 procedure1946 subroutinec1946 subprogramme1947 block1948 module1963 partition1971 script1978 1945 J. P. Eckert et al. Descr. ENIAC (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) b3 Suppose it is desired to..carry out a computational routine of m line steps, print the final results, and then perform the same routine n times. 1951 M. V. Wilkes et al. Prepar. Programs for Electronic Digital Computer i. iii. 22 A ‘closed’ subroutine is one which is called into use by a special group of orders incorporated in the master routine or main program. 1967 Technol. Week 23 Jan. 11/2 (advt.) Software for Sigma 5 includes..a library of mathematical, business and utility routines. 1980 K. D. Wise Microcomputers v. 102 Transfers of data or control between routines should occur only when the programmer specifically requests them. 2000 N.Y. Times 6 July g3/3 Every program or software routine that might conflict with the installation of a new operating system. B. adj. 1. Performed as or forming part of a routine (in sense A. 1a); performed in a more or less identical way on repeated occasions, typically without the need for innovation; performed, given, or carried out by rule or as a matter of course. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine routine1744 routinary1807 formal1818 routinish1830 jog-jog1837 clockworky1864 groove-like1902 1744 Med. Ess. & Observ. (rev. ed.) V. ii. xlix. 558 Those..who have observed the great Difference there is in Diseases at different Times..and who are not, in short, irretrievably lost in a Routine Practice. 1766 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 28/1 We all know..it requires ‘no conjuration, or mighty magic’ to go through the common routine business of office. 1773 J. Williams Treat. Medicinal Virtues Mineral Waters German Spa 44 Follow the old rotine custom, however absurd, and sometimes dangerous, it is found to be. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. xxxvii. 3 Somerset resolved..to place the Great Seal in the hands of some one who might do its routine duties. 1890 Lancet 16 Aug. 339/1 The routine modes of treatment, warm baths, &c., were ordered to be tried. 1935 Discovery Apr. 110/2 It is a routine test to take a radiograph of each value on completion. 1951 Life 17 Dec. 31/2 He went to the debriefing shed and made a routine report on the railroad bombing mission. 1996 Which? Apr. 14/2 There is now growing interest in routine screening for other conditions, such as high cholesterol and prostate and bowel cancer. 2. Of an ordinary or undistinguished type or quality; usual, typical; average, mundane; run of the mill; lacking excitement or variety, humdrum. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace commona1382 ordinarc1400 plainc1430 famosec1449 famous1528 vulgar1580 ordinary1590 undistinguished1600 indistinguished1608 commonplace1616 unremarkable1628 irremarkable1635 bread and cheese1643 incurious1747 ordinary-looking1798 routine1826 indistinctive1846 common-seeming1857 bread-and-butterish1893 bread-and-buttery1893 timeworn1901 day-to-day1919 vanilla1972 standard1977 1826 Q. Oriental Mag. Sept. 103 The monotony of his routine existence at Otahity appears to have extended to the Diary of our friend Maximo. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 177 The routine life..would be unendurably dull. 1940 H. Spencer Art & Life W. Shakespeare v. 197 No routine braggart-soldier he. 1977 Time 11 Apr. 24/1 Flying has become so routine that the notably pragmatic insurance companies charge pilots no more for policies than they do ribbon clerks. 1988 Jrnl. Royal Musical Assoc. 113 235 Scipione Gonzaga's letters to Mantua are of a fairly routine kind. 2009 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 16/1 The more the federal government does in routine emergencies, the greater the odds of catastrophic failure in a big disaster. Compounds Instrumental, as routine-bound, routine-governed, routine-ridden, routine-sodden, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1857 Merry's Museum & Parley's Mag. 33 45/1 He couldn't..have introduced a more genial, cosy arrangement into the routine-ridden, war-wasted year. 1865 Daily News 7 Mar. 5/4 The dazzling effect of Bonaparte's victories over the old fashioned routine-bound armies of Germany. 1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 347/1 The first two weeks seemed to make his old regular, routine-governed life a thing of the far past. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 19 June 453/2 Routine-chained staffs worked on into the night. 1920 Contemp. Rev. June 866 The Soviet authority had to destroy everything in this department—the laws themselves, the routine-sodden institutions. 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media x. 103 The need for advanced knowledge presses on the spirits of the most routine-ridden minds. 2006 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 12 Feb. a1 It was hard work. Hot work. Routine-ridden. Mind-numbing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). routinev. Brit. /ruːˈtiːn/, /rʊˈtiːn/, U.S. /ruˈtin/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: routine n. Etymology: < routine n. Compare French routiner to practise routinely (early 17th cent.). Compare slightly earlier routinize v. †1. intransitive. To follow a routine. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1844 Knickerbocker Nov. 414 Separate from my soul's dearer half, routining daily through the same dull, sickening round..I should sink beneath the load of ennui. a1887 N. J. Burton Yale Lect. on Preaching (1888) 395 The men must drill themselves till they get up an instinct; they must routine and routine and routine, I do not know how many hundreds of times. 2. †a. transitive. Of an actor: to play (a part) in a routine or conventional manner. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > act in specific manner misact1609 tragedize1755 overact1760 overplay1767 to walk through ——1824 underact1847 to play down to ——1880 routine1897 underplay1897 milk1921 ham1933 hoke1935 to camp it up1957 to play for laughs (also a laugh)1963 undercharacterize1970 1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 18 Dec. 712/1 No actor can possibly play leading parts of the first order six nights a week all the year round unless he underplays them, or routines them mechanically in the old stock manner. b. transitive. To link or unite (aspects of a performance) into a routine (routine n. 3); to write or construct a routine for (a performance). ΚΠ 1928 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 10 Nov. 6/2 The Martini headliner rates among the beat dancers of vaudeville and is particularly adept at routining eccentric steps. 1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues iv. 39 I was consulted by Whalen and Martelle relative to routining their shows. 1948 ‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing iv. 43 There are a variety of typical steps which can be routined at the will of the dancer. 1959 F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) xx. 227 I didn't have time to routine a new set of ticky-tacky taps each week. 1982 C. Casady & J. Davidson Singing Entertainer viii. 172 After you've routined the song(s) you're going to record, you..should prepare lead sheets. 2009 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 10 She's routined her song that many times for the video I don't think her own performance would have been an issue. 3. transitive. To organize into a standard or set procedure; to make subject to or incorporate into a routine. Also with into. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > give structure to or organize > organize in specific way scientize1919 routine1920 1920 D. Kennedy Better Foremanship xi. 35 The administration of the details must be routined and taken care of by some mechanical means, as a filing system. 1931 Fortune Aug. 75/1 He had discovered that by routining each day into a set number of hours, his productivity was increased. 1935 Helena (Montana) Independent 4 Feb. 4/1 The overheads will be reduced by routining the job. 1959 R. Condon Manchurian Candidate ii. 31 Staying with each team through the originating processes until he had assured himself that all had been routined with smoothness. 2006 C. Herman Prophets & Profits viii. 308 Schools develop ethos and culture, practices become routined. Derivatives rouˈtining n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > production of performance production1786 mounting1828 setting1885 routining1923 1923 G. B. Clarkson Industr. Amer. in World War xxxi. 481 Conceived as the ‘routining’ of a nation, it became also its discipline. 1976 W. Goldman Magic ii. 65 He spent the intervening days working out his routining. Start with the flashy stuff or save those for the end? 2002 W. R. Bauer Open Door (2003) v. 77 From the routining a blueprint emerged that enabled Wess to fit the charts around what Carter would sing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1661v.1844
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