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Routine vs Automatic - What's the difference?

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Routine is a related term of automatic.


As nouns the difference between routine and automatic

is that routine is while automatic is a car with automatic transmission.

As an adjective automatic is

capable of operating without external control or intervention.

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.
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    • , 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.
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    • , 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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    automatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * automatick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
    • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
  • Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
    • The reaction was automatic : flight!
  • (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  • (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  • (maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

    • Synonyms

    * (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctive

    Antonyms

    * (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntary

    Derived terms

    * automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automatical

    Related terms

    * automagical * automat * automaton * automation * automatization * automatize * automobile * autopilot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A car with automatic transmission.
    • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
  • A semi-automatic firearm.

    • Antonyms

    * (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission