method
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).
Noun edit
method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)
- 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).
- If one method doesn't work, you should ask a friend to help you.
- 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:
- Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […]
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 17 July 2013, pages 206–7:
- 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.
- (acting, often "the method") 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.
- Synonym: method acting
- 1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 64:
- 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.
- (object-oriented programming) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
- Synonym: member function
- (slang) Marijuana.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (dated) An instruction book systematically arranged.
Hyponyms edit
process by which a task is completed
- Abbott's method
- Buteyko method
- chain-ladder method
- comparative method
- dialectical method
- doomsday method
- elenctic method
- Feldenkrais Method
- Fowler's method
- Gutmann method
- historical method
- methodical
- methodology
- philosophical method
- pure virtual method
- scholarly method
- scientific method
- Socratic method
- Wiener-Hopf method
programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object
- accessor method
- Blissard's symbolic method
- branch current method
- Castigliano's method
- Chorleywood method
- convenience method
- Debye-Scherrer method
- d'Hondt method
- Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method
- generator method
- getter method
- grid method
- Hardy-Littlewood circle method
- Hartree-Fock method
- Lee-Kesler method
- mutator method
- Nissl method
- setter method
- sexual method
- Tomatis method
- virtual method
- Westergren method
- Yuzpe method
Derived terms edit
other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too
- abstract method
- access method
- annihilator method
- barrier method
- Bates method
- bisection method
- calendar method
- cascade method
- Cash-Karp method
- chakravala method
- combinatorial method
- concrete method
- Condorcet method
- Coppersmith method
- Coppersmith's method
- Cseh method
- Czochralski method
- Dayi method
- D'Hondt method
- Dodgson's method
- Dormand-Prince method
- Duckworth-Lewis method
- Durand-Kerner method
- erotematic method
- Euler method
- Euler's method
- factory method pattern
- Ferber method
- final method
- fluorine method
- Freiburg method
- Fridrich method
- Gauss-Seidel method
- Golgi's method
- Gram's method
- gray rock method
- grey rock method
- Halley's method
- Heun's method
- Horner's method
- Householder's method
- input method
- input method editor
- Jefferson method
- Joback method
- Kjeldahl method
- Korotkoff method
- Kumon method
- Kyropoulos method
- lattice Boltzmann method
- lumen method
- Martindale method
- method actor
- method of indivisibles
- method of loci
- method of Weierstrass
- method overloading
- method to one's madness
- Monte Carlo method
- my very easy method just speeds up naming planets
- Newton-Raphson method
- Newton's method
- plus-minus method
- remote method invocation
- rhythm method
- Runge-Kutta method
- Schwarzschild method
- Schwarzschild's method
- secant method
- summability method
- summation method
- Tabata method
- Taguchi method
- Tanzalin method
- template method
- template method pattern
- test-retest method
- Tukey's method
- Vaganova method
- word method
- Ziehl-Neelsen method
- Ziehl-Neelsen's method
Related terms edit
Translations edit
process by which a task is completed
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type of acting
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(programming) subroutine or function in object-oriented languages
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Verb edit
method (third-person singular simple present methods, present participle methoding, simple past and past participle methoded)
- (transitive) To apply a method to.
- 1809, Rachel Russell (baroness.), Letters. To which is prefixed, an intr. vindicating the character of lord ...
- "Says he, there is above ten thousand brisk boys are ready to follow me, whenever I hold up my finger : — Says I, how have you methoded this, that they shall not be crushed, for there will be a great force to oppose you?"
- 1809, Rachel Russell (baroness.), Letters. To which is prefixed, an intr. vindicating the character of lord ...
- (casting, by extension, transitive) To apply particular treatment methods to (a mold).
- The company employs extensive use of 3D modelling combined with solidification simulation to ensure that critical castings are properly methoded.
Translations edit
to apply a method
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to apply particular treatment methods to a mold
Etymology 2 edit
Abbreviation.
Noun edit
method (plural methods)
- (skateboarding, snowboarding) Ellipsis of method air..