Technique

Definition: Technique

Technique

Noun

1. A practical method or art applied to some particular task.

2. Skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "technique" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Technique \Tech`nique"\, noun. [French expression]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Technique

Crosswords: Technique

French (technical, technics, technique).

It's an X-K-Red-27 technique. (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

Truth? In terms on technique, you are behind (Center Stage; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen)

It's a new technique. We mock what we don't understand (Spies Like Us; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel)

This scroll of Broken Sword's isn't about sword technique but about swordsmanship's ultimate ideal (Ying xiong; writing credit: Feng Li; Bin Wang)

In my thoughts, I use the technique of positive visualization (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)

Shisshun no technique (1968)

Kinjirareta Technique (1966)

Le Prospecteur et la technique (1959)

Flying Instruction Technique (1954)

Basketball Technique (1935)

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References

• Energy Technique Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• The Blocking Technique, Weighted Mean Operators and Hardy's Inequality (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1679) (reference)

• Les bateaux de pêche de Bretagne : histoire et technique (reference)

• Classical Ballet Technique (reference)

• Essential Technique - Bb Trumpet: Intermediate to Advanced Studies, Book 3 Level (reference)

• Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry (reference)

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Periodicals

• Revue Technique Luxembourgeoise (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique Volume 2: Movement Patterns and Aesthetic Principles (reference)

• The Alexander Technique (reference)

• Alexander Technique (reference)

• The Alexander Technique - Solutions For Back Trouble (reference)

• The New Free Sex (TM) Step-by-step Technique for Super-Sensual Lovemaking (reference)

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Music

• Ballet Technique Class (reference)

• Don't Sweat the Technique (reference)

• Technique (reference)

• The Torture Technique (reference)

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An adult black man is pictured here alone. He was diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma in his upper left arm. Surgeons performed a new procedure implanting a metal rod in place of the cancerous bone. Since muscle and tendon were saved, he is able to use his left arm. Surgeons could attempt this daring new technique since the cancer had not spread. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

A technique called in situ hybridization shows whether a gene is actively expressed in cells, and also provides clues to the gene's function. This technique has helped identify activated oncogenes in cancer cells, and their normal counterparts in normal cells, in many different species. In this photograph, a labeled DNA segment (a known oncogene) has been put into a mouse oocyte, a cell that develops into a mature egg cell. The labeled DNA has paired with (or hybridized to) multiple copies of RNA in the mouse oocyte. The presence of this RNA (shown here as black dots inside the nucleus of the immature cell) shows that the normal cellular counterpart of the oncogene is active, suggesting that it is critical for normal germ cell development. Expression of genes is manifested by the production of RNA transcripts within cells. Hybridization histochemistry (in situ hybridization) permits localization of these transcripts with cellular or greater resolution. Furthermore, the relative amounts of transcripts detected within different tissues or the same tissues under different states (e.g., physiological or developmental) may be quantified. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This photomicrograph reveals central nervous system syphilis, causing general paresis, or paretic neurosyphilis. Numerous treponemes can be identified using silver impregnation technique; magnification 950X. Credit: CDC.

Transmission electron micrograph of E. coli O157:H7 showing flagella. Pseudoreplica technique. Credit: CDC.

A new image processing technique has yielded the clearest view yet of an extraordinary star ... Credit: NASA.

Pole and line fishing boat above a school of tuna. The jets of water facilitate fishing as they prevent the tuna from noticing activity on the deck. This technique uses live bait. Credit: Fisheries.

A slide describing the purpose of the eelgrass restoration and its partners. In June 1996 NOAA scientists transplanted 7000 eelgrass plants from Charlestown Pond to ten locations in Narragansett Bay. The project team returned the following September and found mixed results. In June 1997, the team expanded two of the successful sites and employed a new technique by transplanting turf. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The plantings were conducted in different patterns to determine the most successful planting technique. The technique in the foreground is a checkerboard planting, the middle area is unplanted, and the background planting was done as a continuous planting. The best success was in high density patchy plantings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sounding technique used by Sir James Clark Ross in obtaining first modern deep sea sounding on January 3, 1840 at Latitude 27 26 S and Longitude 17 29 W. The observed depth was 2,425 fathoms. On January 22, 1968, the ESSA Ship DISCOVERER sounded at the same location with a modern echo-sounder and measured 2312 fathoms, less than a 5 per cent error for Ross's observation. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A green laser water penetration system devised by Sylvania Electronic Systems in the late 1970's. Although advertised for fisheries use, this technology has evolved into LIDAR, a system for measuring shallow-water bathymetry and also for into a rapid terrain mapping technique. In: Farooq Hussain, 1970, "Living Underwater, " p. 87. Library Call Number GC65 H8 1970b. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul

At first the families were timid in the building and tumbling worlds, but gradually the technique of building worlds became their technique

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Health

However, one technique involves the use of weighted cones. (references)

A special recording technique that detects muscle activity. (references)

The success of this technique may range from 30 to 50 percent. (references)

Business

Another effective technique is to visit operational sites to demonstrate process instruments. (references)

The Italians, Germans and Japanese have successfully used this technique in Egypt on numerous occasions. (references)

Education campaigns targeted at doctors are a very important technique for expanding the market share in Russia. (references)

Economic History

Tanzania

In most cases, market forces determine the pricing technique to be adopted. (references)

Belgium

Direct marketing is a steadily growing technique for selling directly to the consumer. (references)

Netherlands

Certain firms have used this technique successfully in combination with their usual retail outlet operation. (references)

Human Rights

Taiwan

Nevertheless there are credible reports that the physical abuse or the threat of abuse of prisoners is a recurring investigative technique. (references)

Political Economy

BULGARIA

The Act is also expected to abolish the existing privatization technique of negotiations with potential buyers, mandate privatization only through auctions and tenders, and eliminate all preferences in favor of controversial management-employee buyouts (MEBOs). (references)

Trade

Russia

However, the volume and value of transactions using this technique have yet to attain levels which are either profitable or self-sustaining. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Beginning with "technique": technique-intensive.

Ending with "technique": panel-technique, piano-technique, Q-technique, string-technique, tap-technique.

Albanian

teknikë (engineering, equipment, skill, technics), metodë (dodge, manner, method, principle, process, system). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فن (art), ‏تقنية (mechanics, mechanism, mechanization, technicality), ‏أسلوب (archaism, character, diction, flair, genre, language, manner, method, mode, pattern, phraseology, regimen, sort, strain, style, stylization, tone), ‏براعة فنية (artistry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сръчност (accomplishment, address, agility, deftness, dexterity, facility, hand, handicraft, knack, readiness, skill, technic), техническо умение (technic), технически похвати (technic). (various references)

Chinese 

�" (method), 技�" (skill, technology), 技术 (knowhow, tec, tech, Technic, technical, technology), 技巧 (skill), 朮 (Atractylis lancea var. ovata, method), 手法 (skill, trick). (various references)

Czech

technika (engineering, mechanics, method, style, technology), metoda (approach, line, method, modality, system). (various references)

Danish

teknik (technics). (various references)

Dutch

techniek (technics). (various references)

Esperanto

tekniko (technics). (various references)

Farsi 

تکنیک (Materiel), اصول مهارت , روش فنی , شیوه (Device, Method, Pace, Style), شگردفن . (various references)

Finnish

tekotapa (method of preparation). (various references)

French

technique (technical, technics). (various references)

Frisian

technyk (technics). (various references)

German

Technik (engineering, mechanics, technics, technology), technisch (engineering, mechanical, technic, technical, technicality, technically, techniques, technological), Methode (fashion, manner, method, plan, system). (various references)

Greek 

τεχνική. (various references)

Hebrew 

טכ� יק�" (technics). (various references)

Hungarian

technika (engineering, science, technics, technology), módszer (manner, method, mode, modi, modus, pattern, system, way). (various references)

Indonesian

teknik. (various references)

Italian

tecnica (skill, technology). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

技巧 (finesse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎほう (false report), ぎ�"う (craft, craftsman, finesse), ぎじゅつ (art, skill, technology), テクニック , しゅほう (main armament, main battery, main laws, the highest peak), ほうほう (confusedly, manner, means, method, perplexity, way), わざ (act, art, deed, performance, work). (various references)

Korean 

기� (Craft, Describing, Descriptive, tec, tech, Technic, technical, technology). (various references)

Manx

keirdeeaght, chaghnys (technics). (various references)

Papiamen

téknika (technics). (various references)

Pig Latin

echniquetay.(various references)

Portuguese

técnica (technics). (various references)

Romanian

tehnicã (mechanism, technicalities, technicals, technics), mecanism (action, contrivance, device, engine, gear, gearing, gimmick, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, work). (various references)

Russian 

техника (engineering, technics, technology). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tehnika (engineering, technics), vičnost (cleverness, dexterity, mastery, proficiency, skillfulness), veština (ability, art, attainment, cleverness, craft, cunning, excellence, facility, knack, know how, masterliness, skill, subtlety, wizardry, workmanship), metod rada. (various references)

Spanish

técnica (brushwork, electronics, mechanics, technics). (various references)

Swedish

teknik (engineering, execution, fingering, technics). (various references)

Thai

เทคนิค, หลักวิชา, ความสามารถพิเศษ (talent). (various references)

Turkish

teknik (mechanism, practice, science, style, technic, technical, technics, wrinkle), yöntem (cast, deal, form, gateway, how, line, method, modality, mode, modus, order, practice, procedure, proceeding, process, rite, system, tack, technic, technics, the way, way, wise), usul (brand, cut, formality, gently, method, modus, observance, order, practice, procedure, process, quietly, rite, system, usage, way, wise). (various references)

Turkmen 

tehnika (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

технічний прийом, техніка (engineering, mechanism, technics, technology). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kỹ xảo phương pháp kỹ thuật, kỹ thuật (technology). (various references)

Welsh

techneg. (various references)

ars, ars; artis. (various references)

technique. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "technique": techniques. (additional references)

Words ending with "technique": microtechnique. (additional references)

Words containing "technique": microtechniques. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Technique" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: technoque, techuique, tecnique, teknik. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: chutnee, quieten.

-3 letters: cheque, cinque, entice, equine, ethnic, quench, quiche, quince, quinte, quitch, techie, theine, thence.

-4 letters: centu, chine, chute, cutie, cutin, ethic, hence, niche, niece, queen, quiet, quint, quite, tench, teuch, thein, thine, tunic, unite, untie.

-5 letters: cent, cete, chin, chit, cine, cite, cute, eche, etch, etic, etui, hent, hint, huic, hunt, inch.

+1 letter: techniques.

+3 letters: cinematheque.

+4 letters: cinematheques.

+5 letters: coquettishness, microtechnique.