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Definition: Routine |
RoutineAdjective1. Occurring at fixed times or predictable intervals; "made her routine trip to the store". 2. Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant. Noun1. An unvarying or habitual method of procedure. 2. A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did". 3. A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "routine" was first used: 1676. (references) |
Etymology: Routine \Rou*tine"\, noun. [French expression, from route path, way, road. See Route, Roterepetition.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Routine subroutine. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | A set of instructions arranged in proper sequence to cause a computer to perform a desired operation, such as the solution of a mathematical problem. (references) |
Language | Of, relating to, or in accordance with established procedure (the routine use of the blood pressure test). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In computer science, a subroutine (function, procedure, or subprogram) is a sequence of code which performs a specific task, as part of a larger program, and is grouped as one, or more, statement blocks; such code is sometimes collected into software libraries. Subroutines can be "called", this allows programs to access the subroutine repeatedly, without the subroutine's code having been written more than once.
History
The first use of subprograms was in assembly languages.
Technical Overview
A subprogram, as its name suggest, somehow behaves like a computer program. Typically, the caller waits for subprograms to finish and continues execution only after a subprogram "returns". Subroutines are often given parameters to refine their behavior or to perform a certain computation with given (variable) values. Generally, subprograms execute their statements from top to bottom.
In most imperative programming languages, subprograms may have so-called side-effects, that is, they may cause changes that remain after the subprogram has returned. Usually, compilers cannot predict whether a subprogram has a side-effect or not, but can determine if a subprogram calls no other subprograms, or at least no other subprograms that have side-effects. In imperative programming, compilers usually assume every subprogram has a side-effect to avoid complex analysis of exection paths. Because of its side-effects, a subprogram may return different results each time it is called, even if it is called with the same arguments. A simple example is a subprogram that returns a random number each time it is called . Such behavior is invalid in a strict mathematical sense. An exception to this common behaviour is found in functional programming languages, where subprograms can have no side effects, and will always return the same result if repeatedly called with the same arguments. [Note that subprograms are referred to as functions in these languages].
C/C++ Examples
In the C and C++ programming languages, subprograms are referred to as "functions". Below are three such functions - the first function does absolutely nothing; it is called with: "function1();. The second function returns the number 5; the function can be called with: "function2();" The third function returns a desired selection (1-5), and is called with: "function2(number);"
void function1() { }
int function2() {return 5;}
int function3(int number) {int selection[] = {5,1,3,2,4}; return selection[number];}
Ruby Example
The following is an example of a Ruby subprogram, which outputs "text".
def say_textprint "text\end
"say_text
Why use subprograms?
There are numerous motivations for the use of subprograms:
Generally, to make use of a subprogram, a programmer places some form of call instruction--which constitutes a call site--into an instruction sequence. When the call site is encountered, the instruction sequence is temporarily suspended, and the subprogram itself executes until it completes, at which time the original instruction sequence resumes.
- to reduce redundancy in a program,
- to enable reuse of code across multiple programs,
- to decompose complex problems into simpler pieces,
- to improve readability of a program,
- to replicate useful mathematical functions,
- to hide or regulate part of the program (see Information hiding).
Local variables, recursion, and re-entrancy
A subprogram may find it useful to make use of a certain amount of "scratch" space; that is, memory used during the execution of that subprogram to hold intermediate results. Variables stored in this scratch space are referred to as local variables, and the scratch space itself is referred to as an activation record. An activation record typically has a return address that tells it where to pass control back to when the subprogram finishes.
A subprogram may have any number and nature of call sites; in fact, a subprogram may even call itself, causing its execution to suspend while another nested execution of the same subprogram occurs. This is referred to as recursion, and is a useful technique for making some complex algorithms more comprehensible. However, recursion poses a problem if the recursive execution modifies any local variables, because when the suspended execution resumes, it will find that the data stored in its local variables have been lost.
Early languages like Fortran simply didn't support recursion for this reason. Modern languages almost invariably provide a fresh activation record for every execution of a subprogram; that way, the nested execution is free to modify its local variables without concern for the effect on other suspended executions in progress. As nested calls accumulate, a call stack structure is formed, consisting of one activation record for each suspended subprogram. In fact, this stack structure is virtually ubiquitous, and so activation records are commonly referred to as stack frames.
If a subprogram can function properly even when called while another execution is already in progreses, that subprogram is said to be re-entrant. A recursive subprogram must be re-entrant. Re-entrant subprograms are also useful in multi-threaded situations, since multiple threads can call the same subprogram without fear of interfering with each other.
In a multi-threaded environment, there is generally more than one stack. An environment which fully supports coroutines or lazy evaluation may use date structures other than stacks to store their activation records.
Conventions
A number of conventions of coding subprogram have been developed. It has been commonly preferable that the name of subprogram is a verb when it does certain task and is adjective when it does some inquring and is a noun when it is used to substitute variables and such.The experienced programmers recommend that a subprogram perform only one task. If a subprogram performs more than one task, it should be split up into more subprograms. They argue that subprograms are key components in maintaining code and their role in the program must be distinct.
Some advocate that each subprogram should have least dependecy to other parts of code. For example, they see the use of global variables evil because it adds tight-coupling between subprograms and global variables, if such coupling is not unnecessary at all and advise to refactor subprogram to take parameters instead. This practice is controversial because it tends to increase the number of passed parameters to subprograms.
See programming practice for more details discussion of programming disciplines.
Related terms and clarification
Different programming languages and methodologies possess notions and mechanisms related to subprograms:
- Subroutine is practically synonymous with "subprogram." The former term may derive from the terminology of assembly languages and Fortran.
- Function and procedure often denote a subprogram that takes parameters and may or may not have a return value. Many make the distinction between "functions", that possess return values and appear in expressions, versus "procedures", that possess no return values and appear in statements (though this is not a distinction found in the C programming language). (See also Command-Query Separation.)
- Method is a special kind of subprogram used in object-oriented programming that describes some behaviour of an object.
- Closure - a subprogram together with the values of some of its variables captured from the environment in which it was created.
- Coroutine - a subprogram that returns to its caller before completing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Subroutine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| RO | English | Routine order | Economics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RoutineSynonyms: everyday (adj), mundane (adj), quotidian (adj), unremarkable (adj), workaday (adj), act (n), bit (n), function (n), modus operandi (n), number (n), procedure (n), subprogram (n), subroutine (n), turn (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Business | Part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career. |
Frequency | Regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality; (exactness); even tenor; system; routine; (custom); formula; rule; (form, regulation); keynote, standard, model; precedent; (prototype); conformity. |
Noun: frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness; normality; example (conformity); routine, custom (habit). | |
Impulse | Rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism; pipe clay; rut, groove. |
Conformable.; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable; (genteel). | |
Order | Subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness; Adjective: |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Prison life consists of routine, and then more routine (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) My father was killed making a routine traffic stop in broad daylight by some punk who didn't want no ticket (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) How about we do the good cop, dumb dog routine, and you just shut up. (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon) He comes on with his big innocent farmboy routine, but I could see through that in a Peloponnesian minute (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson) Any break from this routine leaves him terrified (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) | |
Lyrics | A cold routine or something (It's over Now; performing artist: Neve) Always do. everyday the same routine before i skate off to school but who knew (Youth Of The Nation; performing artist: P.O.D.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Routine Flight (1955) The Routine (2002) Routine (2002) The Routine (1999) Lean Routine Workout (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Test chemicals from all sources are prepared in a series of dilutions, and the assay procedures are carried out by the technical staff. Robots, as seen in the photo, are used to perform some of the more routine and highly repetitious chores. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | TED's for sale. Although early in their development use of TED's were resisted, they are now a routine part of any shrimp trawl vessel. TEDS are shown for sale in the window of this Biloxi marine outfitter. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Local landowner completing routine maintenance on his orchard. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Instruction in foot routine for the exercise of toe flexors and ankle motion. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Tracking down and treating diabetes starts with routine medical check-up. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen.. |  | Lifts off from USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) for a routine guard mail run, during exercises off the U.S. west coast, 27 July 1954. Credit: NAVY. |
 | "West Coast Cruisers Capable of Nuclear Assault -- A Regulus I boils white smoke from booster charges as it roars away from its launcher aboard the heavy cruiser USS Los Angeles off San Diego. The launch, a routine evaluation 'shoot', was conducted during the time that 600 members of the Institute of Aeronautical Science were embarked aboard the attack carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), right. The demonstration, which included a 'Terrier' guided missile interception of the Regulus, power exhibition, carrier operations, and a HUK exercise, was highlighted by the Regulus launching. The Terrier was fired at the Regulus from the USS Norton Sound (AVM-1), background, on August 7." Text quoted from the original photo caption, which was released by Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, on 9 August 1957. Credit: NAVY. |  | He at once takes a perpendicular drop and lands upon a hard bottom of dull routine and doldrums. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, half-length portrait, posed as if performing a comedy routine. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Left to right: Moe Howard, Curly Howard and Larry Fine, the Three Stooges, performing a comedy routine. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
A. B. Alcott | The less of routine, the more of life. |
John Stuart Mill | The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. |
Walter Bagehot | It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | In a very short time, things settled down into a regular routine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Try changing your mealtime routine. (references) | |
Make this part of your daily routine. (references) | ||
Two routine tests are indirect and direct laryngoscopy. (references) | ||
Business | The basic routine maintenance services are available to support maker’s warranty for the vehicles. (references) | |
The port sector is required to use one of three lists in making routine domestic procurement decisions. (references) | ||
In general, GOE agencies are reluctant to respond to requests for routine information from foreign persons. (references) | ||
Children | India | In some cases, the Commission had acted to transfer oversight of homes to private voluntary organizations "after the (state) government failed to provide a healthy environment to children in these homes." In its February 2000 concluding observations regarding the country, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern about "numerous reports of routine ill-treatment, corporal punishment, torture and sexual abuse of children in detention facilities, and alleged instances of killings of children living and/or working on the streets by law enforcement officials." The Committee also expressed concern "at the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of detention of children, including detention with adults; lack of application and enforcement of existing juvenile justice legislation; lack of training for professionals, including the judiciary, lawyers and law enforcement officers, in relation to the Convention (on the Rights of the Child), other existing international standards and the Juvenile Justice Act; and the lack of measures and enforcement thereof to prosecute officials who violate these provisions." The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act prohibits child marriage, a traditional practice in the northern part of the country. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Mali | The registration process is routine and is not burdensome. (references) |
Laos | However, in designated security zones, roadblocks and identity card checks of travelers are routine. (references) | |
Economic History | Vanuatu | Magistrate courts handle most routine legal matters. (references) |
Oman | To date, it appears to be routine and non-discriminatory. (references) | |
Nepal | Firms complain that basic legal procedures are neither quick nor routine. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Shackling of prisoners is routine. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The LTTE reportedly used torture on a routine basis. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Torture did not appear to be a routine practice in all cases. (references) | |
Political Economy | Brazil | It plays little role in routine law enforcement. (references) |
Uzbekistan | The police and other MVD forces are responsible for most routine police functions. (references) | |
Singapore | Caning, in addition to imprisonment, is a routine punishment for numerous offenses. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | Informal "fees" are sometimes requested by officials to expedite routine tasks. (references) |
Chad | This authorization is usually routine, but transfers have sometimes been restricted for temporary periods. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Eximbank does not yet provide credit guarantees or insurance for routine contracts with private companies in Bulgaria. (references) | |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | Most Western expatriates find it adequate for routine care and minor surgery. (references) |
Israel | The Consular Agent can provide routine and emergency non-visa related services in the north. (references) | |
Greece | General hospitalization, emergency, and most routine surgery can be handled at local facilities. (references) | |
Women | Congo | Women are required by law to obtain their spouse's permission before engaging in routine legal transactions, such as selling or renting real estate, opening a bank account, accepting employment, or applying for a passport. (references) |
Bahrain | Although local religious courts may grant a divorce to Shi'a women in routine cases, occasionally Shi'a women seeking divorce under unusual circumstances must travel abroad to seek a higher ranking opinion than that available in the country. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Brunei | The DOL inspects working conditions on a routine basis and in response to complaints. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Now women too can experience the blue-grey glow of fluorescent lighting, the warm, pungent stench of burned coffee, the soul-numbing Sisyphean routine of completing a week's work, getting a week's pay, then doing it all over again Monday morning. |
John McCain | I think he's fine. Those are really routine. Almost all of us who reach, you know, a certain age those things come out, because we were so much exposed to the sun when we were children, and that's an extremely minor thing. |
Pervez Musharraf | Well, this happened at one of the bases which we had provided for logistic support, and this was a routine accident. It had nothing to do with any reaction or any action from any side. It was a routine accident on the airfield. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Nothing has occurred since your last session to require its services beyond the ordinary routine duties which upon the sea-board and the in-land frontier devolve upon it in a time of peace. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Routine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.51% of the time. "Routine" is used about 1,944 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.51% | 1,876 | 4,552 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.49% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,944 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "routine": as a matter of routine ♦ assembly routine ♦ aviation routine weather report ♦ compiling routine ♦ control routine ♦ core dump routine ♦ daily routine ♦ dating routine ♦ diagnostic routine ♦ dump routine ♦ executable routine ♦ executive routine ♦ generalized routine ♦ input routine ♦ library routine ♦ loading routine ♦ output routine ♦ recursive routine ♦ reusable routine ♦ routine check tests ♦ routine duty ♦ routine inspection ♦ routine maintenance ♦ routine matter ♦ routine meteorological report ♦ routine observation ♦ routine order ♦ routine procedure ♦ routine tests ♦ routine work ♦ service routine ♦ slave of the routine ♦ supervisory routine ♦ tracing routine ♦ utility routine ♦ work routine. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "routine": non-routine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "routine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rutinë (groove, humdrum, rote), rregull i zakonshëm, regjim i caktuar, i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلام معاد (tag), مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), نمطي, نمرة مسرحية تكرر بإستمرار, إبتذال (platitude, prosaism, prose, triteness, triviality), روتيني (bureaucratic, monotone), روتين (bureaucracy, habit, red tape, rote, rut), رتابة (bureaucracy, flatness, humdrum, monotony, sameness, tempo). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | установен ред (groove, order, usage), установен (determinate, established, fixed, imperial, invariable, regulation, rooted, set, settled, stated, unalterable), рутинен (groovy), рутина (drill, groove, jogtrot, rote, round, rut), редовен (full time, goer, lax, licensed, normal, ordinary, regular, stated), често повтарян номер, шаблонен (conventional, hackneyed, mundane, stereotyped, stereotypical, stock), обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, regular, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), заведена практика, програма (card, line up, platform, playbill, program, programme, prospectus, schedule, scheme, show, timetable). (various references) | |
Chinese | 惯例 (formula, Formulae, Formulas), 日常工作 , 例行 , 常規 (common, conventional). (various references) | |
Czech | pravidelný (normal, orderly, periodic, periodical, regular, smooth, steady), obvyklý (common, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, in use, normal, ordinary, regular, standard, unexceptional, usual, wonted), obvyklá praxe (usage), bìžný postup, bìžný (common, common or garden, current, customary, going, habitual, ordinary, passable, standing, unexceptional, usual). (various references) | |
Danish | rutine (program, sub-program). (various references) | |
Dutch | routine (program, sub-program), sleur. (various references) | |
Esperanto | rutino. (various references) | |
Farsi | کارعادی , عادت جاری , جریان عادی , روزمره . (various references) | |
Finnish | rutiini (program, rutin, sub-program). (various references) | |
French | routine, habituel. (various references) | |
German | Routine (experience, routines), Ausdruck (arithmetic expression, expression, hard copy, manifestation, phrase, printout, registration, term, utterance, verbalism). (various references) | |
Greek | ρουτίνα (donkey work, rote). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יום יומי (daily, everyday, ordinary, workaday), ש'רתי (conventional, customary, everyday, hackneyed, stock, trite), ש'ר" (convention, custom, fluency, habit, rote, rut), שבלו " (die, fixed form, mould, stencil, stereotype), אש'ר" (habit, slip of the tongue). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rutin (groovy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rutin, sehari-hari (daily, knock about). (various references) | |
Italian | routine (round, rut, treadmill). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 規則的 (regular, systematic), 規則的 (regular, systematic), リン酸 (loose, loose-leaf, louver, phosphoric acid, red, redhead, revival, roof, roof garden, roof rack, rookie, root, roots, rouble, rouge, route, route sales, router, routing, to have roots in). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ルーチン , ルーティン , きそくてき (regular, systematic). (various references) | |
Korean | 일과. (various references) | |
Manx | coorse (career, circuit, course, curriculum, racetrack, reef, route, row, travel, way), coorsagh. (various references) | |
Papiamen | rutina. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | outineray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rotina (grooves, rut). (various references) | |
Romanian | rutinã (experience, groove, rut), ordine stabilitã, obişnuit (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitually, habitue, normal, ordinary, regular, rife, standard, used to, usual, usually, wonted, workaday), curent (course, current, daily, draught, flow, fluent, fluently, flux, generally, instant, legal, popular, prevailing, prevalent, race, readily, ruling, running, stream, swift, tide, trend, usual, usually). (various references) | |
Russian | установленный порядок, рутина (groove), определенный (any one, certain, clean-cut, decided, def, definite, determinate, express, positive, precise, spec specific, specif specific, unequivocal), заведенный порядок, программа обычный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rutinski, rutina (rut), navika (habit, habitude, practice, wont). (various references) | |
Spanish | rutina (grind, rote, round, rut). (various references) | |
Swedish | rutin (drill, jog trot, professional experience), slentrian (jog trot, rut). (various references) | |
Turkish | rutin, hergünkü işler, alışılagelmiş (common, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, ordinary), alışkanlık (consuetude, custom, habit, habitude, practice, praxis, use, wont), basmakalıp (banal, cliché, common place, conventional, copybook, hackneyed, Pat, platitudinous, set, stereotyped, stock, trite, well worn), basmakalıp lâflar, boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash), adet (bleeding, consuetude, convention, courses, custom, element, fashion, flow, fragment, groove, habit, item, menses, menstruation, mounthly courses, mounthly periods, number, numeral, particle, period, praxis, sum, the usual thing, total, tradition, usage, use, wont), her günkü (day to day, diurnal, everyday, of every day, per diem, quotidian, ready, usual), yordam, klişeleşmiş (groovy, ready, stereotyped, well worn), mekanikleşmiş, program (card, declaration of policy, platform, program, programme, schedule, statement of policy, timetable), sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, quotidian, regular, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), sıradan işler, değişmeyen (stationary, unchanging, uniform, unvarying). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рутина (groove, rut), внутрішній (domestic, in, inboard, in-house, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, intern, internal, intestinal, intestine, inward, within), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, sickish, sickly, treacly), заведений порядок (order), заведений, екзерсис. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiết mục khôi h i, lề thói hằng ng y, công việc thường l m hằng ng y thủ tục. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | routine. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "routine": routinely, routines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "routine": nonroutine, subroutine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "routine": nonroutines, subroutines. (additional references) | |
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"Routine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boutonne, Foutaine, Louchnje, outine, Outinen, poutine, Reutlingen, Rikushin, rootie, rootin, Rotanev, rotine, Roudin, Roudnice, Roulin, rountine, Roushan, routen, routied, routin, routined, rouxinol, rputine, ruotine, rutin, rutine, Troitino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: norite, orient, tenour, tonier, triune, uniter. | |
-2 letters: inert, inter, intro, inure, irone, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, ourie, outer, outre, rouen, route, rutin, tenor, toner, trine, trone, tuner, unite, untie, urine, uteri. | |
-3 letters: etui, euro, inro, into, iron, nite, noir, nori, note, rein, rent, riot, rite, rote, roti, roue, rout, ruin, rune, runt, tern. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: eruption, jointure, neurotic, neutrino, outliner, routines, snoutier, unerotic. | |
+2 letters: centurion, confiture, continuer, countries, cretinous, detouring, erudition, eruptions, extrusion, importune, introduce, jointured, jointures, juniorate, neurotics, neutrinos, neutronic, outdriven, outliners, outridden, reduction, rerouting, roqueting, routinely, routinize. | |
+3 letters: aeronautic, auctioneer, centurions, confitures, continuers, contribute, counterbid, countering, counterion, croqueting, discounter, enunciator, eructation, eruditions, euphoriant, extrusions, fluorinate, housetrain, importuned, importuner, importunes, intergroup, interunion, introduced, introducer, introduces, juniorates, keratinous, laureation, misfortune, neurotoxic, neurotoxin, neutrophil, nonroutine, numeration, outearning, outgrinned, outhearing, outreading, outserving, outwearing, outwritten, overturing, peritoneum, precaution, quaternion, quercitron, questioner, recounting, rediscount, reductions, refutation, regulation, remounting, reputation, resolution, resumption, retouching, reunionist, revolution, rouletting, routinized, routinizes, serotinous, subreption, subroutine, supertonic, surjection, tambourine, tendrilous, tenebrious, tourmaline, tourneying, tourniquet, tutoyering, ulceration, unfavorite, uniformest, unneurotic, unworthier, unworthies, urinometer, urogenital. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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