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▪ I. routine, n. (a.)|ruːˈtiːn|
Also 7 rotine, routin.
[a. F. routine († rotine), f. route route n.]
1. a. A regular course of procedure; a more or less mechanical or unvarying performance of certain acts or duties.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 29 The general Business of the World lies, for the most Part, in Rotines and Forms. 1751Chesterfield Lett. cclx. (1792) III. 195 Haunt the Courts particularly in order to get that routine. 1777J. Adams Fam. Lett. (1876) 247, I have got into the old routine of war office and Congress. 1808Scott in Lockhart (1837) I. i. 31 Our class was, in the usual routine of the school, turned over to..the Rector. 1846Greener Sci. Gunnery 126 More intimately acquainted with the routine of iron manufacturing than any other person. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 393 His external career was..identified with all the dullest routine of commercial duties.
b. A set form (of speech); a regular set or series (of phrases, etc.). rare.
1676Shadwell Virtuoso i. i, To have a form, a fashion of wit, a rotine of speaking, which they get by imitation. 1681R. L'Estrange Casuist Uncas'd Pref. p. vi, They have a certain Routin of Words, and Sayings, that have the tone of Magique in the very Sound of them. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. v. (1869) 123 A routine of high flown phrases.
c. Theatr. A carefully rehearsed act or sequence of actions (in dancing, singing, dialogue, etc.); a sketch, turn, or ‘number’; the manner in which an act is performed. Similarly in Gymnastics, a performance comprising a sequence of exercises carried out either on the floor or on apparatus, usu. in competition. Also transf. and fig.
1926Dance Mag. June 25/3 No one ever taught him a routine. When he hummed a tune, dance steps just came to him. 1930Dancing Times July 354/2 If a student goes through the same routine of steps (I am not talking of exercises, but of combined steps constituting a dance) [etc.]. 1932N. Coward Words & Music i. 9 Don't do a pratfall in your first routine. 1949N. Marsh Swing, Brother, Swing xii. 280 He wasn't meant to fall. They'd altered the routine. 1956H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy xiv. 92 Do you know the blackmail routine that Jarrold gave me tonight? 1959Loken & Willoughby Compl. Bk. Gymnastics xvii. 196/1 For example, a fast, snappy mass tumbling act would be good following a slow, precise doubles balancing routine. 1963‘E. McBain’ Ten plus One vi. 78 What the hell is this?.. A vaudeville routine at the Palace? 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 452/1 In C-difficulty routines he may perform movements such as going from a handstand between the bars and then resting again in another handstand. 1977Time 22 Aug. 43/1 A teacher in Peoria had encouraged him to become a performer, and when he returned from Germany he started a routine there at a little club.
d. Computers. A set of instructions which performs a specific task and is stored so that it may be executed many times; now esp. one which may be part of a longer, self-contained program.
1945J. P. Eckert et al. Description of ENIAC (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) b–3 Suppose it is desired to..carry out a computational routine of m line steps, print the final results, and then perform the same routine n times. 1948Goldstine & von Neumann in J. von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1963) V. 217 We call the coded sequence of a problem a routine, and one which is formed for the purpose of possible substitution into other routines a subroutine. 1948Proc. IRE XXXVI. 1453/1 The iterative methods of numerical analysis involve the repeated performance of computing routines. 1951M. V. Wilkes et al. Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computer iii. 22 A ‘closed’ subroutine is one which is called into use by a special group of orders incorporated in the master routine or main program. 1967Technology Week 23 Jan. 11/2 (Advt.), Software for Sigma 5 includes..a library of mathematical, business and utility routines. 1971Dudrap & Emery in R. A. Wisbey Computer in Lit. & Linguistic Res. iii. 90 It is often better to provide a few assembly-code routines than to try doing character editing in ‘raw’ fortran. 1980K. D. Wise Microcomputers v. 102 Transfers of data or control between routines should occur only when the programmer specifically requests them and only as called for in the specification of the routines.
2. Without article: Regular, unvarying, or mechanical procedure, discharge of duties, etc.
1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 25 The laws of insipid and dull routine. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. iv. 39 He was an honest man, but the harness of routine had rusted on his back. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. I. vii. §5 (1876) 67 Any process which cannot be reduced almost to an affair of memory and routine. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. viii. 87 The succession to the English crown had not yet settled into fixed routine.
3. a. attrib. (and as adj.). Of a mechanical or unvaried character; performed by rule. Also, in wider senses: of a customary or standard kind; usual, typical, standard.
1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 8 To quit for a time their natural track, and respite their routine tasks. 1845Ld. Campbell Chancellors xxxvii. (1857) II. 137 Somerset resolved..to place the Great Seal in the hands of some one who might do its routine duties. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 177 The routine life..would be unendurably dull. 1940H. Spencer Art & Life W. Shakespeare v. 197 No routine braggart-soldier he. 1960‘E. McBain’ Give Boys Great Big Hand vi. 59 ‘Maybe you can find some of Karl's skull on it. Isn't that what you'd like to find?’ ‘This is just a routine investigation, Mrs. Androvich.’ 1961W. Sargeant in Webster s.v. routine adj., The level of artistry..was altogether routine and uninspired. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxvii. 146, I shouldn't worry about it. It's just a routine check. 1979Sci. Amer. Dec. 112 Recently it has become routine in many laboratories and hospitals to record evoked potentials from the brain stem.
b. Comb., as routine-chained, routine-ridden, routine-sodden adjs.
1920Chambers's Jrnl. 19 June 453/2 Routine-chained staffs worked on into the night.
1929A. Huxley Holy Face 64 Our routine-ridden, mechanized world of flabbily sub-human sentimentalists. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media x. 103 The need for advanced knowledge presses on the spirits of the most routine-ridden minds.
1920Contemp. Rev. June 866 The Soviet authority had to destroy everything in this department—the laws themselves, the routine-sodden institutions.
▪ II. routine, v.|ruːˈtiːn|
[f. prec.]
trans. To apply a routine to; to organize according to a routine. Hence rouˈtining vbl. n.
1897G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 18 Dec. 712/1 No actor can possibly play leading parts of the first order six nights a week all the year round unless he underplays them, or routines them mechanically in the old stock manner. 1941W. C. Handy Father of Blues iv. 39, I was consulted by Whalen and Martelle relative to routining their shows. 1948‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing iv. 43 There are a variety of typical steps which can be routined at the will of the dancer. 1959R. Condon Manchurian Candidate ii. 31 Yen Lo got three implantation teams started on them, staying with each team through the originating processes until he had assured himself that all had been routined with smoothness. 1976W. Goldman Magic ii. 65 He spent the intervening days working out his routining. Start with the flashy stuff or save those for the end? |