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Routine vs Plus - What's the difference?

routine | plus |

As nouns the difference between routine and plus

is that routine is while plus is plus.

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.}}

    Anagrams

    * ----

    plus

    English

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • sum of the previous one and the following one.
    • Two plus two equals four.
    A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.
  • (colloquial) with; having in addition
    • I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred Euros' spending money!
  • and also; in addition
    • Let's go home now, it's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.

    Synonyms

    * and

    Antonyms

    * minus

    Derived terms

    * plus sign

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A positive quantity.
  • An asset or useful addition.
    • He is a real plus to the team.
  • (arithmetic) A plus sign: .

    • Synonyms

    * (useful addition) asset * plus sign

    Antonyms

    * (useful addition) liability, minus * minus, minus sign

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being positive rather than negative or zero.
    • -2 * -2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
  • Positive, or involving advantage.
    • He is a plus factor.
  • (physics) Electrically positive.
    • A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.

    Derived terms

    * ** on the plus side

    Synonyms

    * (being positive rather than negative or zero) positive * advantageous, good, positive

    Antonyms

    * (being positive rather than negative or zero) minus, negative * bad, disadvantageous, minus, negative

    Verb

  • (informal) To add; to subject to addition.

    • See also

    * add * addition * times ----