routine

See also: Routine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈtiːn/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)

1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

   Synonym: rut

   Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.

   stand-up comedy routine

4. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

   Synonyms: function, procedure, subroutine

Derived terms

• routiner

Translations

course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常規／常规 (zh) (chángguī), 常规 (zh) (chángguī)

• Czech: běžná praxe f
• Finnish: rutiini (fi)
• French: routine (fr) f
• Galician: rutina f
• German: Routine (de) f
• Greek: ρουτίνα (el) f (routína)
• Hebrew: שִׁגְרָה (he) f (shigrá)
• Japanese: 日課 (nikka), ルーチン (ja) (rūchin)
• Korean: 일과 (ko) (ilgwa)
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• Maori: hātepe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rutine m

  Nynorsk: rutine m

• Persian: روتین (fa) (rutin), روزمره (fa) (ruzmarre), روال (fa) (ravâl)
• Portuguese: rotina (pt) f
• Romanian: rutină (ro) f
• Russian: рути́на (ru) f (rutína), распоря́док (ru) m (rasporjádok), поря́док (ru) (porjádok)
• Spanish: rutina (es) f
• Swedish: rutin (sv) c

set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically

• Czech: rutina (cs) f
• Finnish: rutiini (fi)
• French: routine (fr) f
• German: Routine (de) f
• Korean: 관례 (gwallye)
• Maori: hātepe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rutine m

  Nynorsk: rutine m

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• Portuguese: rotina (pt) f
• Russian: рути́на (ru) f (rutína), распоря́док (ru) m (rasporjádok)
• Spanish: rutina (es) f
• Swedish: rutin (sv) c

set piece of an entertainer's act

• French: routine (fr) f, numéro (fr)
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computing: set of instructions designed to perform a specific task

• Finnish: rutiini (fi)
• French: routine (fr) f
• German: Routine (de) f
• Greek: διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía)
• Korean: 루틴 (rutin)
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• Portuguese: rotina (pt) f
• Russian: рути́на (ru) f (rutína), програ́мма (ru) f (prográmma), опера́ция (ru) f (operácija)
• Spanish: rutina (es) f
• Swedish: rutin (sv) c

Adjective

routine (comparative more routine, superlative most routine)

1. According to established procedure.
2. Regular; habitual.
   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. […] One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
   • 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:

     Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.

Derived terms

• routinely

Translations

according to established procedure

• Catalan: rutinari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常規／常规 (zh) (chángguī), 常规 (zh) (chángguī)

• Czech: rutinní
• Finnish: rutiininomainen
• French: procédural (fr)
• German: routinemäßig (de)
• Japanese: 規則的 (きそくてき, kisokuteki)
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• Korean: 판에 박힌 (pane bakhin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rutinemessig

  Nynorsk: rutinemessig

• Portuguese: rotineiro (pt)
• Russian: рути́нный (ru) (rutínnyj)
• Spanish: rutinario (es)
• Swedish: rutinmässig

regular; habitual

• Catalan: rutinari
• Czech: běžný (cs), všední (cs)
• Finnish: rutiininomainen
• French: routinier (fr)
• German: routinemäßig (de)
• Italian: di routine
• Korean: 일상적인 (ilsangjeogin), 일과의 (ilgwaui)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rutinemessig

  Nynorsk: rutinemessig

• Portuguese: de rotina, rotineiro (pt)
• Russian: заведённый (ru) (zavedjónnyj)
• Spanish: de rutina, rutinario (es)
• Swedish: rutinmässig

ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others

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• Catalan: rutinari
• Chinese:

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• Czech: všední (cs)
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• Finnish: rutiininomainen
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• French: quelconque (fr) m or f
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• Korean: 평범한 (pyeongbeomhan)
• Russian: заурядный (ru) m (zaurjadnyj)
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• Turkish: sıradan (tr), tekdüze (tr)

Anagrams

• in route, in utero, tue-iron

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French

Etymology

From French route (“road, route”), and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French -ine: a suffix for diminutive purpose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.tin/

• Audio (une routine)

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Noun

routine f (plural routines)

1. routine (all senses)
2. (Louisiana, Cajun, St.Mary Parish) road

Further reading

• “routine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ouïrent

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Noun

routine f (uncountable)

1. routine
2. rut

Anagrams

• rutenio, uterino