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Webster 1913 Edition


Procedure

Pro-ce′dure

,
Noun.
[F.
procédure
. See
Proceed
.]
1.
The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
“The true procedure of conscience.”
South.
2.
A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
“Gracious procedures.”
I. Taylor.
3.
That which results; issue; product.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Procedure

PROCE'DURE

,
Noun.
The act of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; series of actions; as the procedure of the soul in certain actions. But it is more generally applied to persons; as, this is a strange procedure in a public body. The motions of physical causes are more generally denominated operations.
1.
Manner of proceeding; management; conduct.
2.
That which proceeds from something; produce. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


procedure

procedure

See also: procédure

English

Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

  1. A particular method for performing a task.
    • 2014 June 14, It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
      One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
  2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
  3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
    Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
  4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
  5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bacon to this entry?)
  6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
  7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

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External links

  • procedure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • procedure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /proːsəˈdyːrə/

Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)

  1. procedure

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Italian

Noun

procedure f

  1. plural of procedura

Old French

Noun

procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

  1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

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