routinern.
/ruːˈtiːnə/, /rʊˈtiːnə/, U.S. /ruˈtinər/ 1. = routineer n. (in various senses).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > one who acts by routine
routineer1792
routiner1809
routinist1846
1809 New Ann. Reg. 1808 Domest. Lit. 348/1 If a man of system may be either an empirical, an hypothetical, a metaphysical, or a physical practitioner, under what distinct order or genus the routiner is to arrange himself, we cannot very readily surmise.
1838 London & Westm. Rev. Apr. 43/2 It is with such a young discoverer's zeal, with such a persuasion that persuades all, the people to action, grey-haired routiners to ever new experiment.
1875 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. 400 Those good things of the mind which the old routiners reserved for Masters of Arts.
1930 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 30 877/1 Unexpected emergencies to rescue you from dull sameness and redeem you from the life of the routiner.
1999 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 11 May b2 The performers' pleasure could be felt, and it was pleasant to watch people who were..doing what they wanted to do, rather than bored routiners.
2. A device for automatically testing the circuits and connections in a telephone exchange or a computer.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > exchange > exchange equipment
private line1852
bank1884
call-disc1884
howler1886
trunk1889
multiple switchboard1891
rack1893
line switch1898
heat coil1900
relay rack1902
multiple1905
listening key1906
telharmonium1906
wiper1906
preselector1912
line finder1922
rank1924
routiner1928
keysender1929
uniselector1930
wiper arm1933
1928 Brit. Patent 283,991 1/2 The twenty conductors from this level are taken into the routiner and terminate in lamps which indicate each switch.
1948 J. Atkinson Herbert & Procter's Teleph. I. xxi. 453/1 Specially designed test boxes or routiners..are arranged to apply test conditions somewhat more onerous than the conditions normally encountered in practice.
1973 P.O. Electr. Engineers Jrnl. 66 44/2 Trunk circuit routiners..are used to verify that a call can be established to a distant answering relay-set over each outgoing trunk circuit in turn.
2006 H. Fensom in B. J. Copeland Colossus xxiv. 300 A routiner put a large number of devices through a preselected series of electrical and logical tests.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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