different between working vs procedure

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k??
• Hyphenation: work?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English werking, werkynge, warkynge, worchinge, from Old English wyr?ung (“working, work”), verbal noun of wyr?an (“to work”), equivalent to work +? -ing. Cognate with Scots wirking, warking, Dutch werking, German Wirkung.

Noun

working (countable and uncountable, plural workings)

1. (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
2. Method of operation.
3. (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.

4. Fermentation.
5. (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
6. A place where work is carried on.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English workyng, wirkynge, worchinge, werchinge, workinde, wirkand, worchende, wurchende, from Old English wyr?ende, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wurkijan? (“to work”), equivalent to work +? -ing. Compare Scots wirkand, werkand, warkand (“working”), Dutch werkend (“working, acting”), German wirkend (“acting, working”).

Verb

working

1. present participle of work

Adjective

working (not comparable)

1. That is or are functioning.

2. That suffices but requires additional work.

3. In paid employment.

4. Of or relating to employment.

5. Enough to allow one to use something.

   a working knowledge of computers

6. Used in real life; practical.

Synonyms

• (functioning):: functioning; up (mainly used of computers):
• (that suffices but requires further work):: draft, provisional, temporary
• (in paid employment):: employed, in employment
• (of or relating to employment):: work
• (enough to allow one to use something):: basic

Antonyms

• (functioning):: broken, broken-down, down (mainly used of computers):

Derived terms

Hyponyms

• known-working

Translations

Related terms

• work

References

• working in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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