routine

Meanings

1. 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. 2
   adj

   Regular; done as a normal part of a process.

   The doctor ordered some routine blood tests.

3. 3
   adj

   Ordinary and not special or unusual.

   For the firefighters it was just another routine call.

4. 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.

Common collocations

• routine check Adjective + noun

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)).

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