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Define the word procedure

Procedure \Pro*ce"dure\, n. [F. proc['e]dure. See Proceed.]
   1. The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward;
      progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure
      of conscience." --South.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps
      taken in an action or other legal proceeding. "Gracious
      procedures." --I. Taylor.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. That which results; issue; product. [Obs.] --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

procedure
     n 1: 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" [syn: process]
     2: 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" [syn: operation]
     3: a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
        [syn: routine, subroutine, subprogram, function]
     4: a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

156 Moby Thesaurus words for "procedure":
   MO, SOP, act, action, actions, activity, acts, address,
   affectation, air, algorithm, approach, arrangement, attack,
   bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm,
   behavioral science, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, carriage,
   charting, common practice, comportment, conception, conduct,
   contrivance, course, course of action, creed, culture pattern,
   custom, demeanor, deportment, design, device, disposition, doing,
   doings, drill, enterprise, envisagement, fashion, figuring,
   folkway, foresight, forethought, form, game, gestures, goings-on,
   graphing, ground plan, guidelines, guiding principles, guise, idea,
   intention, layout, line, line of action, lines, lineup,
   long-range plan, maintien, maneuver, manner, manner of working,
   manners, mapping, master plan, matter of course, means, measure,
   method, methodology, methods, mien, mode, mode of operation,
   mode of procedure, modus operandi, modus vivendi, motion, motions,
   move, movements, moves, observable behavior, operation,
   operations research, order, organization, pattern, plan,
   plan of action, planning, planning function, platform, poise,
   policy, polity, port, pose, position paper, posture, practice,
   praxis, prearrangement, prescribed form, presence, principles,
   proceeding, process, program, program of action, rationalization,
   routine, rule, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization,
   scheme, scheme of arrangement, set form, setup, social science,
   standard operating procedure, standing orders, step,
   strategic plan, strategy, style, system, systematization, tack,
   tactical plan, tactics, technique, the big picture, the drill,
   the how, the picture, the way of, tone, tradition, way,
   way of life, ways, ways and means, wise, wont, working plan

procedure
     
        subroutine