different between procedure vs harlequinade

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 French arlequinade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??l?kw??ne?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

harlequinade (plural harlequinades)

1. A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown.
2. Any comical or fantastical procedure or playfulness.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 154:

     Away up the gorge all diurnal fancies trooped into the wide liberties of endless luminous vistas of azure sunlit mountains beneath the shining azure heavens, the ranges and valleys changing with every mood of the atmosphere, with the harlequinade of the clouds and the wind.

Translations

See also

• commedia dell'arte