Other forms: methods
A method is a settled way of doing something. A reliable method, the scientific method, method of payment.
The scientific method is less a fixed procedure than a habit of trying to prove yourself wrong. Method acting is the technique of drawing on your own experience for a role. There is method in his madness comes from Hamlet. The Greek means a pursuit after.
1nounmethodA settled way of doing something.
“What's the best method for learning new vocabulary?”
method is a way of doing.
Also accepted in games: procedure
Greek methodos means a pursuit or way after — meta, after, plus hodos, a road.
Proto-Indo-European
*sed-
Middle French
methode
English, today
method
Borrowed from Middle French methode. From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος. by surface analysis, met- + -hod. See also -ode and hodo-.
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