different between procedure vs departure

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)

1. A particular method for performing a task.
2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     Gracious procedures.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
7. (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)

1. procedure

Derived terms

• afzettingsprocedure

Anagrams

• produceer, producere

Italian

Noun

procedure f

1. plural of procedura

Old French

Noun

procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

Related terms

• procés, proces
• proceder

Descendants

• ? English: procedure
• French: procédure

English

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p??(?)tj?(?)/, /d??p??(?)t???(?)/

Noun

departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.
2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     any departure from a national standard

   There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.

3. (euphemistic) A death.
   • His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

4. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
5. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

6. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

7. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

Synonyms

• leaving

Antonyms

• arrival

Related terms

• depart
• departure lounge
• departure tax

Translations

Further reading

• departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• apertured