Routine vs Unusual - What's the difference?
routine | unusual |
A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
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*: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.
According to established procedure.
Regular; habitual.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 3, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
, title= Unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
Not usual.
As a noun routine
is .As an adjective unusual is
unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.routine
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
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.}}