routine

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

routines

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more routine

Superlative

most routine

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.

2. 2.A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

   • Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
   • It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

3. 3.A set piece of an entertainer's act.

4. 4.A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.According to established procedure.

2. 2.Regular; habitual.

   • Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine.

3. 3.Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

   • Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.

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