routine
A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
Adjective 4 meanings
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.”
Etymology
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).
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ROUTINE at a glance
ROUTINE has 7 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (R 1 + O 1 + U 1 + T 1 + I 1 + N 1 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,769 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with routine
All rhymesOne letter away
- ROUTING8
- POUTINE9
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