[W/K] :: 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