单词 | procedure |
释义 | procedure (once / 399 pages) 1n 2n A procedure is a tried and true process or method used to accomplish a particular task. Using sharp metal picks, dentists scrape the plaque from their patients’ teeth. While effective, it’s a procedure most people despise. The word procedure is often used in the fields of medicine and law, sometimes in combination with other words, as in "surgical procedure" or "legal procedure." A "Parliamentary procedure" is the set of rules that you follow at a meeting of a club or some other organization (not necessarily a House of Parliament). Procedure is also related to the word procedural, which is sometimes used a term for a genre of television drama in which the plot revolves around a technical procedure, like the solving of a police case. WORD FAMILYprocedure: procedural, procedures+/procedural: procedurally/proceed: procedure, proceeded, proceeding, proceedings, proceeds, procession/procession: processional, processions/processional: processionally, processionals USAGE EXAMPLESThe school announced the procedure is scheduled for Friday, with an anticipated recovery time of four weeks. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Over the long term, though, might the procedure affect their eating and digestion? Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) He begged us to perform the extractions at the same time so that he would not be awake for the procedures. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n a particular course of action intended to achieve a result the procedure of obtaining a driver's license Syn|Hypo|Hyper process Bertillon system a system or procedure for identifying persons fingerprintingthe procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification genetic fingerprinting, genetic profilingthe procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification diagnostic procedure, diagnostic techniquea procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis emergency procedure(medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) experimental procedurethe specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment calculation, computation, computingthe procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods medical procedurea procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners chromosome mapping, mapping(genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome operating procedurea procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation stiffeningthe act of becoming stiff indirectionindirect procedure or action rigamarole, rigmarolea long and complicated and confusing procedure modus operandi, routinean unvarying or habitual method or procedure condition, experimental conditionthe procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition formula, rule(mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems prenatal diagnosisany of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality double-blind experiment, double-blind procedure, double-blind studyan experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment cardiac massage, heart massagean emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical processa medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body artificial respirationan emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially cardiography, electrocardiographydiagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram) echocardiographya noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heart echoencephalographya noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study the anatomy of the brain CPR, cardiac resuscitation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, kiss of life, mouth-to-mouth resuscitationan emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen Heimlich maneuver, Heimlich manoeuverean emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea transposition(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign number crunchingperforming complex and lengthy numerical calculations mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods recalculationthe act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data) auscultationlistening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) X-ray photography, roentgenographyradiography that uses X-rays to produce a roentgenogram electromyographydiagnosis of neuromuscular disorders with the use of an electromyograph mammographya diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X rays thermographydiagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumors dental procedurea procedure employed by a dentist SOP, standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedurea prescribed procedure to be followed routinely rat racean exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation groove, ruta settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape metarulea rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI) algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rulea precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem heuristic, heuristic program, heuristic rulea commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem recursion(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation activity any specific behavior 2n a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work Syn|Hyper operation work activity directed toward making or doing something 3n a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings 2Hypo|Hyper bureaucratic procedure, red tape needlessly time-consuming procedure objection(law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality recusation(law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked n a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program Syn|Hypo|Hyper function, routine, subprogram, subroutine cataloged procedure a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name contingency procedurean alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises library routinea debugged routine that is maintained in a program library random number generatora routine designed to yield a random number recursive routinea routine that can call itself reusable routinea routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly executive routine, supervisory routinea routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines tracing routinea routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program service routine, utility routinea routine that can be used as needed dump routinea routine that writes from an internal store to some external medium input routinea routine that writes from an external source to an internal store output routinea routine that controls an output device computer software, package, software, software package, software program, software system (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory |
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