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Recurring vs Routine - What's the difference?

recurring | routine |

As a verb recurring

is .

As an adjective recurring

is happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.

As a noun routine is

.

recurring

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
  • He has recurring asthma attacks.
    Revenge is a recurring theme in this novel.
  • (mathematics) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
  • Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.

    Synonyms

    * recurrent * repetitive

    routine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  • A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
  • A set piece of an entertainer's act.
  • (label) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • According to established procedure.
  • Regular; habitual.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 3, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke , passage=Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.}}

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