different between routine vs typical

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

English

Alternative forms

• typicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic, type + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?p?kl?/
• Hyphenation: typ?i?cal

Adjective

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3. Normal, average; to be expected.
4. (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:common

Antonyms

• atypical

Derived terms

• typicality
• typically
• typicalness

Related terms

• typal
• type
• typic

Translations

See also

• gestalt
• gist
• resemblance
• emblematic
• prefigurative
• distinctive

Noun

typical (plural typicals)

1. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

   Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

   Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

Further reading

• typical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• typical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• clay pit, claypit