method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛθəd/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɛtət/
rhymes: -ɛθəd
Forms: form: methods
Etymology: From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).
Senses: examples: text: If one method doesn't work, you should ask a friend to help you.
text: He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2013, pages 206–7:
glosses: A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).
examples: text: Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 261, column 2:
text: There's method in the universe.
We're lucky that things aren't worse.
ref: 1980 December 6, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 14:
glosses: Systematicity, methodicalness, intentionality, order
examples: text: In this case, the application of the famous method was a little shaky. To be fair, the director was dealing with a pretty stroppy cast.
ref: 1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 64:
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
synonyms: method acting
qualifier: often "the method"
glosses: A technique for acting based on the ideas articulated by Konstantin Stanislavski and focusing on authentically experiencing the inner life of the character being portrayed.
examples: text: When you call the method, you provide values corresponding to these variables in your method call.
ref: 2006, David A. Black, David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers, Manning, →ISBN, page 101:
synonyms: member function
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
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word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
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glosses: Marijuana.
glosses: An instruction book systematically arranged.
Hyponyms: sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Abbott's method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Buteyko method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Cecchetti method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: chain-ladder method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Charmat method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: comparative method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Copeland's method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: dialectical method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: doomsday method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: elenctic method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Feldenkrais Method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Fowler's method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Gutmann method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: historical method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: loverboy method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: methodical
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: methodology
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: philosophical method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: pure virtual method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: scholarly method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Schulze method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: scientific method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Socratic method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: time-domain electromagnetic method
sense: process by which a task is completed
word: Wiener-Hopf method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: 4-7-8 method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: accessor method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Blissard's symbolic method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: branch current method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Castigliano's method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Chorleywood method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: convenience method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Debye-Scherrer method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: d'Hondt method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: generator method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: getter method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: grid method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Hardy-Littlewood circle method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Hartree-Fock method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Lee-Kesler method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: mutator method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Nissl method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Sabouraud's method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: setter method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: sexual method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Tomatis method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: virtual method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Westergren method
sense: programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
word: Yuzpe method
Derived terms: sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: abstract method
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word: access method
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word: annihilator method
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word: barrier method
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word: Bates method
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word: bisection method
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word: calendar method
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word: cascade method
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word: Cash-Karp method
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word: chakravala method
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word: combinatorial method
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word: concrete method
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word: Condorcet method
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word: Coppersmith method
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word: Coppersmith's method
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word: Cseh method
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word: Czochralski method
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word: Dayi method
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word: D'Hondt method
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word: Dodgson's method
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word: Dormand-Prince method
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word: Duckworth-Lewis method
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word: Durand-Kerner method
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word: erotematic method
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word: Euler method
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word: Euler's method
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word: factory method pattern
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word: Ferber method
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word: final method
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word: fluorine method
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word: Freiburg method
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word: Fridrich method
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word: Gauss-Seidel method
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word: Golgi's method
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word: Gram's method
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word: gray rock method
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word: grey rock method
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word: Halley's method
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word: Heun's method
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word: Horner's method
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word: Householder's method
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word: input method
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word: input method editor
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word: intermethod
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word: Jefferson method
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word: Joback method
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word: Kjeldahl method
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word: Korotkoff method
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word: Kumon method
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word: Kyropoulos method
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word: lattice Boltzmann method
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word: lumen method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: macromethod
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Martindale method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: metamethod
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: method actor
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: method in the madness
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Methodism
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: methodism
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Methodist
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: methodist
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: methodization
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: methodize
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: methodless
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: method of indivisibles
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: method of loci
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: method of Weierstrass
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: methodolatry
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: methodologist
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: method overloading
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word: method to one's madness
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: micromethod
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: monomethod
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Monte Carlo method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: multimethod
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: my very easy method just speeds up naming planets
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Newton-Raphson method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Newton's method
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word: nonstandard method
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word: plus-minus method
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word: remote method invocation
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: rhythm method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Runge-Kutta method
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word: Schwarzschild method
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word: Schwarzschild's method
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word: secant method
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word: submethod
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word: summability method
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word: summation method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: supermethod
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word: Tabata method
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word: Taguchi method
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word: Tanzalin method
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word: template method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: template method pattern
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word: test-retest method
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word: Tukey's method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: unmethod
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Vaganova method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: word method
sense: other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
word: Ziehl-Neelsen method
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word: Ziehl-Neelsen's method
Related terms: word: methodic
word: methodical → methodically
word: Methodius
word: methodology
alt: methodologic
word: methodological