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pro·ce·dure

(prə-sē′jər)

1. A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something: standard procedure.

a. A series of steps taken to accomplish an end: a medical procedure; evacuation procedures.

b. Computers A set of instructions that performs a specific task; a subroutine or function.

a. A set of established forms or methods for conducting the affairs of an organized body such as a business, club, or government.

b. Law The set of rules under which litigation is conducted, especially in contrast to the set of substantive legal principles that determine the merits of legal controversies and disputes.

[French procédure, from Old French, from proceder, to proceed; see proceed.]

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procedure

(prəˈsiːdʒə)

1. a way of acting or progressing in a course of action, esp an established method

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the established mode or form of conducting the business of a legislature, the enforcement of a legal right, etc

3. (Computer Science) computing another name for subroutine

proˈcedural adj

proˈcedurally adv

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pro•ce•dure

(prəˈsi dʒər)

n.

1. the act or manner of proceeding in any action or process; conduct.

2. a particular course or mode of action.

3. any given mode of conducting legal, parliamentary, or similar business.

[1605–15; < French procédure. See proceed, -ure]

procedure

process, procedure - A process is a set or series of actions directed to some end or a natural series of changes; a procedure is a series of actions conducted in a certain manner, an established way of doing something.
ceremonially, ceremoniously - Ceremonially relates to the performance of a procedure; ceremoniously relates to the performer of the procedure.
procedure, process, proceed - Procedure, process, and proceed come from Latin procedere, "to go forward."
seder - The Hebrew word for "order, procedure"; it is the ceremonial Jewish dinner held on the first night of Passover.

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Noun	1.	procedure - a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error" process Bertillon system - a system or procedure for identifying persons fingerprinting - the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification genetic fingerprinting, genetic profiling - the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis emergency procedure - (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) experimental procedure - the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" calculation, computation, computing - the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods medical procedure - a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners chromosome mapping, mapping - (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome operating procedure - a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation stiffening - the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance" indirection - indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection" rigamarole, rigmarole - a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time" modus operandi, routine - an unvarying or habitual method or procedure experimental condition, condition - the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition formula, rule - (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"
	2.	procedure - a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" operation work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
	3.	procedure - a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program subprogram, subroutine, routine, function software, software package, software program, software system, computer software, package - (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory; "the market for software is expected to expand" computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" cataloged procedure - a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name contingency procedure - an alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises library routine - a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library random number generator - a routine designed to yield a random number recursive routine - a routine that can call itself reusable routine - a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly executive routine, supervisory routine - a routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines tracing routine - a routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program service routine, utility routine - a routine that can be used as needed
	4.	procedure - a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings bureaucratic procedure, red tape - needlessly time-consuming procedure objection - (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

procedure

noun method, policy, process, course, system, form, action, step, performance, operation, practice, scheme, strategy, conduct, formula, custom, routine, transaction, plan of action, modus operandi He did not follow the correct procedure in applying for a visa.

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procedure

noun

1. A method used in dealing with something:

approach, attack, course, line, modus operandi, plan, tack, technique.

2. An action calculated to achieve an end:

maneuver, measure (often used in plural), move, step, tactic.

3. An official or prescribed plan or course of action:

line, policy, program.

Translations

إجْراء، أصول، طريقَه

procedurapostup

metodeprocedure

Ablauf Prozedere Prozedur Verfahren Vorgang

διαδικασία

procedimiento gestión

kord

menettelymenettelytapaoikeudenkäyntimenettelytyöjärjestys

procédure procédé fonction

eljáráseljárásmódprocedúra

aîferî

procedura procedimento trafila

プロシージャ手続き手順行程

darbo būdasdarbo tvarkaprocedūraprocedūrinisprocedūros

noriseprocedūraprocess

procedúra

步骤程序过程

procedure

[prəʊˈsiːdʒə^r] n

(= process) → procédure f
safety procedures → procédures de sécurité

(= method) → procédure f
to be standard procedure → être une procédure standard
to follow the correct procedure → suivre la procédure indiquée
a change in procedure → un changement de procédure

(= operation) → procédure f
a surgical procedure → une procédure chirurgicale

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procedure

n → Verfahren nt; parliamentary/legal procedure → parlamentarisches/gerichtliches Verfahren; what would be the correct procedure in such a case? → wie geht man in einem solchen Falle vor?, wie verfährt man in einem solchen Falle?; business procedure → geschäftliche Verfahrensweise; rules of procedure → Vorschriften pl; questions of procedure → verfahrenstechnische or (Jur) → verfahrensrechtliche Fragen pl; procedure-oriented (Comput) → prozedurorientiert

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procedure

[prəˈsiːdʒəʳ] n (Admin, Law) → procedura
the usual procedure is to ... → la procedura normale or prassi è di...
cashing a cheque is a simple procedure → riscuotere un assegno è un'operazione semplice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

procedure

(prəˈsiːdʒə) noun

the order or method of doing something. They followed the usual procedure(s).

proˈcedural adjective

pro·ce·dure

n. procedimiento;

clinical ___ → ___ clínico;

invasive ___ → ___ invasivo;

noninvasive ___ → ___ no invasivo;

surgical ___ → ___ quirúrgico;

therapeutic ___ → ___ terapéutico.

procedure

n procedimiento; loop electrosurgical excision — (LEEP) procedimiento de escisión electroquirúrgica con asa

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Nor is it to be doubted that as such a procedure can do no harm, it may possibly be of no contemptible advantage; considering that oil and water are hostile; that oil is a sliding thing, and that the object in view is to make the boat slide bravely.

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When they took him, they cut off the heads of his two companions in the field, and carried him to the Emperor; the procedure against him was not long, and he was condemned to be burnt alive.

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In the orderly procedure of social evolution there was no place for it.

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Tulliver's prompt procedure entailed on him further promptitude in finding the convenient person who was desirous of lending five hundred pounds on bond.

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(Sperm Whale Fishery) to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed pre-eminently presuming and ridiculous.

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But the nervousness that assailed him at the door of that inglorious haunt - a pawnshop - and the effort necessary to invent the pseudonym (which, somehow, seemed to him a necessary part of the procedure), had taken more time than he imagined: and when he returned to the billiard-room with the spoils, the bank had already closed its doors.

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So, while the doctor was pursuing his descriptive course of lecturing in the officers' mess, Joe reigned supreme on the forecastle, holding forth in his own peculiar manner, and making history to suit himself--a style of procedure pursued, by the way, by the greatest historians of all ages and nations.

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He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.

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That this was the usual procedure was so well known to Hook that in disregarding it he cannot be excused on the plea of ignorance.

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Shortly after his separation from his wife, he began writing his first note on the new judicial procedure, the first of the endless series of notes he was destined to write in the future.

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But to this procedure I was averse; I not only wanted the canoe to stay where it was, but I wanted the beauteous Fayaway to get into it, and paddle with me about the lake.

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The colonel stood watching the procedure. Presently his eyes fell upon me, and he spoke to a young officer at his side.