Routine (pronounced roo-teen)
(1) A
customary or regular course of procedure.
(2) Commonplace
tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals;
typical or everyday activity.
(3) Regular,
unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
(4) An
unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient
or predictable response; in informal use something perfunctory or insincere;
merely procedural.
(5) In
computer programming, a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer
to perform a series of operations; that series of operations (also as
sub-routine (as part of a larger routine) & co-routine (run in conjunction)
although few programmers use the hyphens).
(6) In
entertainment, an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a
song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer.
(7) Of
the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine.
(8) Dull
or uninteresting; commonplace.
(9) One
of the key concepts in ethnomethodology (a discipline in sociology focused on
the methods groups use to create societal order) and related to routinization
of authority, the process through which a charismatic authority becomes a
bureaucracy
(10) As
RAT (routine activity theory), a sub-field of criminology.
(11) In
poker, as Royal Routine, an alternative name for the royal straight flush.
1670–1680:
From the Middle English routine (customary course of action; more or less
mechanical performance of certain acts or duties), from the sixteenth century French
routine from the Middle French route (road, route), from the Old French
route & rote (usual course of action, beaten path; a customary way), the
construct being rout(e) + -ine (a diminutive suffix), from the Latin rupta (broken, ruptured, burst), perfect passive participle of rumpō, from the Proto-Italic rumpō (break, I break, I violate), from the
primitive Indo-European Hrunépti &
Hrumpénti (to break), from the root Hrewp-.
Routine is a noun & adjective, routineness, routinization &
routiner are nouns, routinize is a verb and routinely is an adverb; the noun
plural is routines.
Routine
can be merely descriptive of something periodic or a construct and thus neutral
or convey something negative in the sense in which the synonyms include conventional,
everyday, ordinary, rut, humdrum, unremarkable, habitual, perfunctory &
insincere. In other European languages
the descendants include the Catalan (rutina),
Dutch (routine), Galician (rutina), Hungarian (rutin), Italian (routine),
Portuguese (rotina), Spanish (rutina) & Turkish (rutin).
The rather unhappy noun of action routinization (a being or becoming
routine; action of imposing a routine upon) was a creation of US English in
1916 as a development from the verb routinize (subject to a routine, make into
a routine) which dates from 1893. The
adjectival sense "of a mechanical or unvaried character, habitually done
in the same way" has been used since at least 1917 and was a direct
development from the noun. The now
familiar theatrical or athletic performance sense of "carefully rehearsed
sequence of actions" dates only from 1926.
In the
context of the card game, the word poker is an adaptation of US English of
uncertain origin and there’s no evidence of any relationship to other
meanings. Quite why the card game was so-named
has attracted speculation but no documentary evidence has ever emerged. It may be related to the German Pochspiel (a similar card game) from the
German pochen (to brag as a bluff (literally
"to knock, rap” (and thus the suggested link to the verb poke))) from the Middle
High German bochen & puchen, from the Proto-Germanic puk-, which is probably imitative. An alternative idea is that it was related to
the French poquer from poque, (a similar card game and a move
in pétanque (a form of boules (in the sense of the game, a
shortening of the French jeu de boules)),
a game played with metal bowls with origins in the south of France). The earlier version of the game was in English
called brag and the US form seems first to have been played in 1829 on the lower
reaches of the Mississippi, presumably among riverboat gamblers and the location,
with the French influences, does support some French connection in the
etymology. Interestingly, it appears the
original form seems to have been played with a 20-card pack (10-J-Q-K-A) evenly
dealt among four players; the full-deck version not played until the 1840s.
Lindsay Lohan's Royal Routine in The Parent Trap (1998)
The Royal
Routine (more commonly known as the royal flush) is the least likely winning
combination in five-card poker and cannot be beaten unless “agreed rules” are
being played which includes an ascendency of suits; in that case, one Royal Routine
can beat another, however unlikely such an occurrence may be. Because in poker all suits are usually of
equal value, most prefer to “split the pot” if, after a count-back, two or more
hands are equal although rules for a variety of tie-break mechanisms have been
defined. In ascending order, the winning
possibilities in poker are:
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