procedure
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1. a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work (noun.act)
hypernym | : | work, |
definition | : | activity directed toward making or doing something (noun.act) |
2. a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings (noun.act)
hyponym | : | objection, |
definition | : | (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality (noun.act) |
3. a particular course of action intended to achieve a result (noun.act)
hypernym | : | activity, |
definition | : | any specific behavior (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | bertillon system, |
definition | : | a system or procedure for identifying persons (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | fingerprinting, |
definition | : | the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | emergency procedure, |
definition | : | (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | experimental procedure, |
definition | : | the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | medical procedure, |
definition | : | a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | operating procedure, |
definition | : | a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | stiffening, |
definition | : | the act of becoming stiff (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | indirection, |
definition | : | indirect procedure or action (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | rigamarole, rigmarole, |
definition | : | a long and complicated and confusing procedure (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | condition, experimental condition, |
definition | : | the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition (noun.cognition) |
hyponym | : | formula, rule, |
definition | : | (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems (noun.cognition) |
4. a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program (noun.communication)
hyponym | : | cataloged procedure, |
definition | : | a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | contingency procedure, |
definition | : | an alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | library routine, |
definition | : | a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | recursive routine, |
definition | : | a routine that can call itself (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | reusable routine, |
definition | : | a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | tracing routine, |
definition | : | a routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program (noun.communication) |
5. a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work (noun.act)
derivation | : | procedural, |
definition | : | of or relating to procedure (adj.pert) |
6. a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings (noun.act)
derivation | : | adjective, procedural, |
definition | : | relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law (adj.all) |
derivation | : | procedural, |
definition | : | of or relating to procedure (adj.pert) |
7. a particular course of action intended to achieve a result (noun.act)
derivation | : | process, work, work on, |
definition | : | shape, form, or improve a material (verb.creation) |
derivation | : | go, move, proceed, |
definition | : | follow a procedure or take a course (verb.social) |
derivation | : | process, |
definition | : | deal with in a routine way (verb.social) |
8. a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work (noun.act)
derivation | : | procedural, |
definition | : | of or relating to procedure (adj.pert) |
9. a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings (noun.act)
derivation | : | adjective, procedural, |
definition | : | relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law (adj.all) |
derivation | : | procedural, |
definition | : | of or relating to procedure (adj.pert) |
10. a particular course of action intended to achieve a result (noun.act)
derivation | : | process, work, work on, |
definition | : | shape, form, or improve a material (verb.creation) |
derivation | : | go, move, proceed, |
definition | : | follow a procedure or take a course (verb.social) |
derivation | : | process, |
definition | : | deal with in a routine way (verb.social) |
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