routine
rou·tine
noun
a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program
- “he did his act three times every evening”
- “she had a catchy little routine”
- “it was one of the best numbers he ever did”
adjective
Origin
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)).
Phrases
- function-evaluation routine
- malfunction routine
- routine response behavior
- routine response behaviour
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