The meaning of Routines

noun

A traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

Usage examples:

The old english custom of dancing round the maypole

plural noun

The official department that administers and collects the duties levied by a government on imported goods.

Usage examples:

Cocaine seizures by customs have risen this year

plural noun

Money paid to the government when you take particular goods from one country to another

Usage examples:

Customs officials, it took us ages to get through customs when we got back from italy.

noun

A tool or machine with a rotating cutting tip or reciprocating hammer or chisel, used for making holes.

Usage examples:

Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric dr…

verb

Produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill.

Usage examples:

Drill holes through the tiles for the masonry pins

verb

Sow (seed) with a drill.

Usage examples:

Crops drilled in autumn

noun

A mathematical relationship or rule expressed in symbols.

Usage examples:

The formula for the capacitance of a spherical capacitor

noun

The exact chemical parts that a mixture consists of

Usage examples:

[ c ] the company announced that it was changing its soft-drink formula to make it sweeter., [ c us…

noun

A standard or accepted way of doing something

Usage examples:

A formula for sth/for doing sth tandy had a simple formula for locating his stores: put them where …

noun

A long, narrow cut or depression in a hard material.

Usage examples:

And that is why we are having a very hard look at the grooves on club-faces right now.

verb

Make a groove or grooves in.

Usage examples:

Deep lines grooved her face

noun

A long, narrow, hollow space cut into a surface

Usage examples:

The window slides along a groove in the frame.

noun

A settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.

Usage examples:

He has an annoying habit of interrupting me

verb

Be dressed or clothed.

Usage examples:

A boy habited as a serving lad

noun

A particular act or way of acting that you tend to do regularly

Usage examples:

[ u ] judy is in the habit of sleeping late on sundays., [ u ] i have the habit of checking my e-ma…

noun

A particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one.

Usage examples:

A method for software maintenance

noun

A way of doing something

Usage examples:

New teaching methods encourage children to think for themselves., automated telephone answering ser…

noun

A particular way of doing something

Usage examples:

Travelling by train is still one of the safest methods of transport., debit cards are becoming the …

noun

The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.

Usage examples:

I filed the cards in alphabetical order

verb

Give an authoritative instruction to do something.

Usage examples:

She ordered me to leave

verb

Logical arrangement of different elements

noun

A repeated decorative design.

Usage examples:

A neat blue herringbone pattern

verb

Decorate with a repeated design.

Usage examples:

He was sitting on a soft carpet patterned in rich colours

noun

A particular way in which something is done or organized, or in which something happens

Usage examples:

Our weather pattern comes from the northwest., a whole variety of behavior patterns affect infants.…

noun

A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.

Usage examples:

The un peace plan

verb

Decide on and make arrangements for in advance.

Usage examples:

They were planning a trip to egypt

verb

A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be achieved

noun

The actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.

Usage examples:

The principles and practice of teaching

verb

Us spelling of practise.

verb

Perform (an activity) or exercise (a skill) repeatedly or regularly in order to acquire, improve or maintain proficiency in it.

Usage examples:

I need to practise my french

noun

Practice, as distinguished from theory.

Usage examples:

Modern political praxis is now thoroughly permeated with a productivist ethos

noun

The process of using a theory or something that you have learned in a practical way

Usage examples:

She is interested in both the theory and praxis of criminology.

noun

An established or official way of doing something.

Usage examples:

The police are now reviewing procedures

noun

An order or method of doing something

Usage examples:

[ u ] it’s standard procedure for those at the top of the list to be called first., defense lawyers…

noun

A set of actions which is the usual or official way of doing something

Usage examples:

Procedure for sth the company has introduced new procedures for dealing with customer complaints., …

noun

A set of related measures or activities with a particular long-term aim.

Usage examples:

An extensive programme of reforms

verb

Provide (a computer or other machine) with coded instructions for the automatic performance of a task.

Usage examples:

It is a simple matter to program the computer to recognize such symbols

noun

An officially organized system of services, activities, or opportunities that help people achieve something

Usage examples:

There is no graduate training programme for new recruits., a programme to do sth housing market ren…

noun

A government, especially an authoritarian one.

Usage examples:

Ideological opponents of the regime

noun

A particular government, or a system or method of government

Usage examples:

A communist/totalitarian regime

noun

A particular way of operating or organizing a system, an economy, etc.

Usage examples:

An investment/a pricing/a tax regime many individual employees will benefit from this favourable ta…

noun

A prescribed course of medical treatment, diet, or exercise for the promotion or restoration of health.

Usage examples:

A regimen of one or two injections per day

noun

A plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times.

Usage examples:

We have drawn up an engineering schedule

verb

Arrange or plan (an event) to take place at a particular time.

Usage examples:

The release of the single is scheduled for april

verb

A list of times at which things are planned to occur

noun

A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.

Usage examples:

The state railway system

noun

A set of connected items or devices that operate together

Usage examples:

The system of interstate highways, we’re having a new computer system installed., the digestive sys…

noun

A particular set of actions for doing something

Usage examples:

They designed a system that tracks results., a system for (doing) sth the bank has streamlined syst…

noun

The action of using something or the fact of being used.

Usage examples:

A survey of water usage

noun

The way in which words are used by the people who speak and write a particular language, or an example of such use

Usage examples:

[ c ] we use african-american, which is the current preferred usage., the study tracks credit card …

noun

The process of using something

Usage examples:

The software allows marketers to track the usage patterns of each customer., the plan offers unlimi…

suffix

Forming adjectives and adverbs of direction or manner.

Usage examples:

Edgeways

noun

A method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action.

Usage examples:

I hated their way of cooking potatoes

adverb

At or to a considerable distance or extent; far (used before an adverb or preposition for emphasis)

Usage examples:

His understanding of what constitutes good writing is way off target

noun

One's customary behaviour.

Usage examples:

Constance, as was her wont, had paid her little attention

adjective

(of a person) in the habit of doing something; accustomed.

Usage examples:

He was wont to arise at 5.30 every morning

verb

Make or be or become accustomed.

Usage examples:

Wont thy heart to thoughts hereof