procedure
English
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#PROCEDURECategory:English terms derived from French#PROCEDURE procédure, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PROCEDURE, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PROCEDURE procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/Category:English 3-syllable words#PROCEDURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROCEDURE
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /pɹəˈsi.d͡ʒɚ/Category:English 3-syllable words#PROCEDURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROCEDURE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PROCEDUREAudio (US): (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/, [pɹəˈsɪi.d͡ʒə], [pɹəˈsɪ̈i.d͡ʒə]Category:English 3-syllable words#PROCEDURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROCEDURE
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/Category:English 3-syllable words#PROCEDURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROCEDURE
- Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure
- Rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/iːʒə(ɹ)#PROCEDURECategory:Rhymes:English/iːʒə(ɹ)/2 syllables#PROCEDURE
Noun
procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)Category:English lemmas#PROCEDURECategory:English nouns#PROCEDURECategory:English uncountable nouns#PROCEDURECategory:English countable nouns#PROCEDURECategory:English countable nouns#PROCEDURECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with entries#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with 5 entries#PROCEDURE
- A particular method for performing a task.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.Category:English terms with quotations#PROCEDURE
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#PROCEDURE) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.Category:English terms with usage examples#PROCEDURE
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
- Gracious procedures.Category:English terms with quotations#PROCEDURE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PROCEDURE) That which results; issue; product.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.Category:English terms with quotations#PROCEDURE
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#PROCEDURE) A subroutine coded to perform a specific task, which is not permitted a return value when distinguished from a function.
- (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#PROCEDURE) A surgical operation.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- administrative procedure
- (computing): stored procedure
Derived terms
- Arndt-Eistert procedure
- Bobbitt procedure
- civil procedure
- collection procedure
- criminal procedure
- cryoprocedure
- Davydov procedure
- Evans procedure
- Fontan procedure
- Frey's procedure
- Harada-Ito procedure
- Hartmann's procedure
- Ing-Manske procedure
- Krukenberg procedure
- Lowry process
- microprocedure
- midprocedure
- Mitrofanoff procedure
- Montreal procedure
- Nuss procedure
- [[:obliterative procedure process: Edeleanu process#English|obliterative procedure process: Edeleanu process]]
- parliamentary procedure
- periprocedure
- postprocedure
- preprocedure
- procedural
- procedure call
- procedure division
- procedure mask
- procedure word
- process-server
- process-serving
- Puestow-Gillesby procedure
- Puestow procedure
- Rastelli procedure
- remote procedure call
- Scopinaro procedure
- security procedure
- Sigwart procedure
- single justice procedure
- standard operating procedure
- subprocedure
- surgical procedure
- voice procedure alphabet
- Whipple procedure
Related terms
Translations
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Further reading
- “procedure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “procedure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:Danish terms borrowed from French#PROCEDURECategory:Danish terms derived from French#PROCEDURE procédure.
Noun
procedure c (singular definite proceduren, plural indefinite procedurer)Category:Danish lemmas#PROCEDURECategory:Danish nouns#PROCEDURECategory:Danish terms spelled with C#PROCEDURECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#PROCEDURECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with entries#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with 5 entries#PROCEDURE
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | procedure | proceduren | procedurer | procedurerne |
| genitive | procedures | procedurens | procedurers | procedurernes |
Derived terms
See also
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from Middle French#PROCEDURECategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle French#PROCEDURE procedure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌproːsəˈdyːrə/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#PROCEDURE
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#PROCEDUREAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧ce‧du‧re
- Rhymes: -yːrəCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/yːrə#PROCEDURE
Noun
procedure f (plural procedures, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#PROCEDURECategory:Dutch nouns#PROCEDURECategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#PROCEDURECategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PROCEDURECategory:Dutch feminine nouns#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with entries#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with 5 entries#PROCEDURE
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: prosedur
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
procedure fCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#PROCEDURECategory:Italian noun forms#PROCEDURECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with entries#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with 5 entries#PROCEDURE
Old French
Noun
procedure oblique singular, f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)Category:Old French lemmas#PROCEDURECategory:Old French nouns#PROCEDURECategory:Old French feminine nouns#PROCEDURECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PROCEDURECategory:Old French feminine nouns#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with entries#PROCEDURECategory:Pages with 5 entries#PROCEDURE
- procedure (particular method for performing a task)