routine

B1 Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ɹuˈtin/ UK /ɹuːˈtiːn/ See IPA manual

Freq #3160

Meanings

1

noun
A fixed set of things you usually do in a regular order.

Going for a morning run is part of my daily routine.
2

adj
Regular; done as a normal part of a process.

The doctor ordered some routine blood tests.
3

adj
Ordinary and not special or unusual.

For the firefighters it was just another routine call.
4

noun
A set sequence of moves or jokes that a performer practises and repeats.

The comedian's stand-up routine had the whole room laughing.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a fixed set of things you... rut

2 adj · regular; done as a normal... everyday standard

3 adj · ordinary and not special or... everyday

Word family

Forms routines

Derived forms antiroutineco-routinecoroutinegoroutinenon-routinenonroutinepreroutineroutinalroutinaryroutinedroutinelyroutineness

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Phrases (1)

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routine check
a regular, standard inspection carried out as a normal procedure

Adjective + noun

Simplified etymology

Routine developed in the mid-17th century from route. It originally conveyed the idea of following or traveling the same established road repeatedly, from which the sense of a regular procedure arose.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).

routine French rupta via Latin

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# routine

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun, adj
**IPA (US):** /ɹuˈtin/
**IPA (UK):** /ɹuːˈtiːn/
**Frequency rank:** 3160

## Meanings
1. A fixed set of things you usually do in a regular order.
2. Regular; done as a normal part of a process.
3. Ordinary and not special or unusual.
4. A set sequence of moves or jokes that a performer practises and repeats.

## Examples
- Going for a morning run is part of my daily routine.
- The doctor ordered some routine blood tests.
- For the firefighters it was just another routine call.
- The comedian's stand-up routine had the whole room laughing.

## Derived Forms
- antiroutine
- co-routine
- coroutine
- goroutine
- non-routine
- nonroutine
- preroutine
- routinal
- routinary
- routined
- routinely
- routineness

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: routine
- Root: rupta via

## Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).

## AI Etymology
Routine unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via. Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)). Modern senses include a fixed set of things you usually do in a regular order. and regular; done as a normal part of a process.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as antiroutine, co-routine, coroutine, goroutine, non-routine, and nonroutine.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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