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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024meth•od /ˈmɛθəd/USA pronunciation n. - a procedure, technique, or planned way of doing something:[countable]There are several methods we could use to recover your lost data.
- order or system in doing anything:[uncountable]There's no method to your work.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024meth•od (meth′əd),USA pronunciation n. - a procedure, technique, or way of doing something, esp. in accordance with a definite plan:There are three possible methods of repairing this motor.
- a manner or mode of procedure, esp. an orderly, logical, or systematic way of instruction, inquiry, investigation, experiment, presentation, etc.:the empirical method of inquiry.
- order or system in doing anything:to work with method.
- orderly or systematic arrangement, sequence, or the like.
- Show Businessthe Method. Also called Stanislavski Method, Stanislavski System. a theory and technique of acting in which the performer identifies with the character to be portrayed and renders the part in a naturalistic, nondeclamatory, and highly individualized manner.
adj. - Show Business(usually cap.) of, pertaining to, or employing the Method:a Method actor; Method acting.
- Greek méthodos systematic course, equivalent. to met- meta- + hodós way, road
- Latin methodus
- late Middle English: medical procedure 1375–1425
meth′od•less, adj. - 1, 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged means, technique. Method, mode, way imply a manner in which a thing is done or in which it happens. Method refers to a settled kind of procedure, usually according to a definite, established, logical, or systematic plan:the open-hearth method of making steel; one method of solving a problem.Mode is a more formal word that implies a customary or characteristic fashion of doing something:Kangaroos have a peculiar mode of carrying their young.Way, a word in popular use for the general idea, is equivalent to various more specific words:someone's way(manner) of walking; the best way (method) of rapid calculating; the way (mode) of holding a pen.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged disposition.
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