routines
例行公事,例行程序,套路,常规
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Definitions
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- : a customary or regular course of procedure.
- : commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office.
- : regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
- : an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!
- : Computers. a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.a series of operations performed by the computer.
- : an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine.
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- : of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine: routine duties.
- : dull or uninteresting; commonplace.
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Examples
On Friday evening, as the conference got underway, the two senators were on the stage delivering comedic standup routines.
Usually, magicians spend months—years—developing new routines.
There are good reasons why these routines are not making it into the tributes to Williams.
Petit walks the wire back and forth four times, varying the walks with little routines from time to time.
Mr. Mayall, who was married with three children, was famed for his slapstick routines.
A self-willed chaos to familiar routines and associations, an involuntary revisiting of dead hours and buried sensations.
Their danger to all the routines of ordinary life was not realized until it was too late.
The sense of inevitable routines that held all the world in thrall six years ago has gone.
Aaron's farming methods, so much different to Murnan routines, puzzled and intrigued the boy.
Data can be sorted and classified at high speed for further processing by use of these generalized sorting routines.