different between operating vs procedure
operating
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??p??e?t??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p??e?t??/
- Hyphenation: op?er?at?ing
Adjective
operating (not comparable)
- In operation; that operates.
- Don't touch the operating machinery.
- Involved in an operation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
- operating room
- operating system
Verb
operating
- Present participle and gerund of operate.
Anagrams
- orange tip, orangetip, pignorate
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procedure
English
Etymology
From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p???si?d??/
- (US) IPA(key): /p???sid??/
- Hyphenation: pro?ced?ure
Noun
procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)
- A particular method for performing a task.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- Gracious procedures.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
Synonyms
- (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
- (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
- (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
- (medicine): operation
Hyponyms
- administrative procedure
- (computing): stored procedure
Related terms
- proceed
- process
- procession
Translations
Further reading
- procedure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- procedure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- reproduce
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French procedure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pro?s??dy?r?/
- Hyphenation: pro?ce?du?re
- Rhymes: -y?r?
Noun
procedure f (plural procedures)
- procedure
Derived terms
- afzettingsprocedure
Anagrams
- produceer, producere
Italian
Noun
procedure f
- plural of procedura
Old French
Noun
procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)
- procedure (particular method for performing a task)
Related terms
- procés, proces
- proceder
Descendants
- ? English: procedure
- French: procédure
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- what procedures require informed consent
- what procedures can nurses do
- what procedure stops periods
- what procedures do dermatologists do
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