What (who) is method - definition
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Methods; Method (disambiguation); Method (film)
method
(methods)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
A method is a particular way of doing something.
The pill is the most efficient method of birth control.
...new teaching methods...
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method
n.
1.
Way (viewed theoretically), mode, manner, process, course, means, rule, modus operandi.
2.
Arrangement, system, classification, orderly disposition.
3.
Order, regularity, system, rule.
Method
·noun An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
II. Method ·noun Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an Individual.
III. Method ·noun Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.
Wikipedia
Method
Method (Ancient Greek: μέθοδος, methodos) literally means a pursuit of knowledge, investigation, mode of prosecuting such inquiry, or system. In recent centuries it more often means a prescribed process for completing a task. It may refer to:
- Scientific method, a series of steps, or collection of methods, taken to acquire knowledge
- Method (computer programming), a piece of code associated with a class or object to perform a task
- Method (patent), under patent law, a protected series of steps or acts
- Methodology, comparison or study and critique of individual methods that are used in a given discipline or field of inquiry
- Discourse on the Method, a philosophical and mathematical treatise by René Descartes
- Methods (journal), a scientific journal covering research on techniques in the experimental biological and medical sciences
Pronunciation examples for method
1. method.
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2. method ?
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3. method.
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4. method.
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5. method.
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Examples of use of method
1. Not in the Peres–Shmeres method, but in the eye for an eye method.
2. "Jarring information loose is a method, but is it the most productive method?
3. A woman who invents a new diagnostic method can copyright the method, but cannot patent it.
4. The regulator would review the valuation method and approve the price arrived at using this method.
5. "There is never a perfect method, it‘s always a method which is appropriate to each country.