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Routine vs Repeat - What's the difference?

routine | repeat |

As nouns the difference between routine and repeat

is that routine is while repeat is an iteration; a repetition.

As a verb repeat is

(intransitive) to do or say again (and again).

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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    repeat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
    • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).

    • Related terms

    * repeatedly * repetition * repetitive * repeat oneself

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
    • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  • Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.

    • See also

    * redundant

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    * English reporting verbs 1000 English basic words