单词 | routine |
释义 | routine —routinely, adv. —routineness, n. /rooh teen"/, n. 1. a customary or regular course of procedure. 2. commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office. 3. regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure. 4. an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine! 5. Computers. a. a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations. b. a series of operations performed by the computer. 6. an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine. adj. 7. of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine: routine duties. 8. dull or uninteresting; commonplace. [1670-80; < F, deriv. of route ROUTE] Syn. 8. habitual, ordinary, typical. |
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