routine

routine

See also: Routine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈtiːn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːn

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 5661828:

     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

Bulgarian: практика (bg) (praktika) Catalan: rutina f Chinese: Mandarin: 常規／常规 (zh) (chángguī) Czech: běžná praxe f Danish: rutine (da) c Finnish: rutiini (fi) French: routine (fr) f Galician: rutina f German: Routine (de) f Greek: ρουτίνα (el) f (routína) Hebrew: שִׁגְרָה‎ (he) f (shigrá) Icelandic: rútína f Indonesian: rutin (id) Japanese: 日課 (ja) (nikka), ルーチン (ja) (rūchin) Korean: 일과 (ko) (ilgwa) 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 Welsh: trefn (cy) f

set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically

Bulgarian: рутина (bg) f (rutina) Czech: rutina (cs) f Finnish: rutiini (fi) French: routine (fr) f German: Routine (de) f Indonesian: rutin (id) Korean: 관례 (gwallye) Maori: hātepe Norwegian: Bokmål: rutine m Nynorsk: rutine m Portuguese: rotina (pt) f Russian: рути́на (ru) f (rutína), распоря́док (ru) m (rasporjádok) Spanish: rutina (es) f Swedish: rutin (sv) c Welsh: trefn (cy) f

set piece of an entertainer's act

French: routine (fr) f, numéro (fr)

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) Indonesian: rutin (id) Korean: 루틴 (rutin) 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.
   • 1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 108:

     Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine.

   • 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

Bulgarian: установен (bg) (ustanoven) Catalan: rutinari Chinese: Mandarin: 常規／常规 (zh) (chángguī) Czech: rutinní Finnish: rutiininomainen French: procédural (fr) German: routinemäßig (de) Hebrew: שגרתי‎ (shigratí) Japanese: 規則的 (きそくてき, kisokuteki) Korean: 판에 박힌 (pan-e bakhin) Norwegian: Bokmål: rutinemessig Nynorsk: rutinemessig Persian: روال‎ (fa) Portuguese: rotineiro (pt) Russian: рути́нный (ru) (rutínnyj) Spanish: rutinario (es) Swedish: rutinmässig (sv) Ukrainian: рути́нний (rutýnnyj)

regular; habitual

Bulgarian: рутинен (bg) (rutinen) Catalan: rutinari Czech: běžný (cs), všední (cs) Finnish: rutiininomainen French: routinier (fr) German: routinemäßig (de) Italian: di routine Korean: 일상적인 (ilsangjeog-in), 일과의 (ilgwa-ui) Norwegian: Bokmål: rutinemessig Nynorsk: rutinemessig Portuguese: de rotina, rotineiro (pt) Russian: заведённый (ru) (zavedjónnyj) Spanish: de rutina, rutinario (es) Swedish: rutinmässig (sv) Ukrainian: рути́нний (rutýnnyj)

ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: обичаен (bg) (običaen) Catalan: rutinari Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: všední (cs) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: rutiininomainen French: quelconque (fr) m or f German: routiniert (de), gewohnheitsmäßig (de), üblich (de) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Korean: 평범한 (pyeongbeomhan) Russian: заурядный (ru) m (zaurjadnyj) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: sıradan (tr), tekdüze (tr)

Anagrams

• in route, in utero, tue-iron

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French

Etymology

From French route (“road, route”), and Old French -ine: a suffix for diminutive purpose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.tin/

• Audio (une routine)

  (file)

Noun

routine f (plural routines)

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

Derived terms

• prendre sa routine à volonté

Descendants

• → Catalan: rutina
• → Dutch: routine
• → English: routine
• → Galician: rutina
• → Hungarian: rutin
• → Italian: routine
• → Portuguese: rotina
• → Spanish: rutina
• → Turkish: rutin

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruˈtin/
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

routine f (invariable)

1. routine
2. rut

Derived terms

• routinario

Further reading

• routine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• rutenio, turione, unitore, uterino