different between colourless vs routine

English

Alternative forms

• colorless (American spelling)

Etymology

colour +? -less

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?l?(?).l?s/

Adjective

colourless (comparative more colourless, superlative most colourless)

1. Having little or no colour.
2. (of a liquid) Water white.
3. Lacking in interest or variety.

Synonyms

• (having little or no colour): see also Thesaurus:achromatic
• (of a liquid): clear, waterlike; see also Thesaurus:transparent
• (lacking in interest): drab, dull; see also Thesaurus:boring

Translations

See also

• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?u??ti?n/

Noun

routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)

1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

   Synonym: rut
3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.

4. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

   Synonyms: function, procedure, subroutine

Derived terms

• routiner

Translations

Adjective

routine (comparative more routine, superlative most routine)

1. According to established procedure.
2. Regular; habitual.
3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

Derived terms

• routinely

Translations

Anagrams

• in route, in utero, tue-iron

French

Etymology

From French route (“road, route”), and Old French -ine: a suffix for diminutive purpose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.tin/

Noun

routine f (plural routines)

1. routine (all senses)
2. (Louisiana, Cajun French, St.Mary Parish) road

Derived terms

• prendre sa routine à volonté

Descendants

Further reading

• “routine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ouïrent

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Noun

routine f (invariable)

1. routine
2. rut

Derived terms

• routinario

Anagrams

• rutenio, uterino

Further reading

• routine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana