different between routine vs widespread
routine
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French routine.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /?u??ti?n/
Noun
routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)
- A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
- A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
- Synonym: rut
- A set piece of an entertainer's act.
- (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)
- According to established procedure.
- Regular; habitual.
- 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)
- routine (all senses)
- (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)
- routine
- rut
Derived terms
- routinario
Anagrams
- rutenio, uterino
Further reading
- routine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
routine From the web:
- what routine means
- what routine vaccinations are given to cats
- what routine maintenance is required for a car
- what routines should i have
- what routine procedures are done to the newborn
- what routines can alexa do
- what routine should i do at the gym
- what routine tests are done in pregnancy
widespread
English
Alternative forms
- wide-spread
Etymology
From wide +? spread.
Adjective
widespread (comparative widerspread or more widespread, superlative widestspread or most widespread)
- Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
Synonyms
- extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal; see also Thesaurus:widespread
Antonyms
- limited
Derived terms
- widespreadly
- widespreadness
Translations
widespread From the web:
- what widespread means
- what does widespread mean
- widespread define
- definition widespread
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