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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛθəd/
(Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtət/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛθəd
Hyphenation: meth‧od

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *me

Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?

Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)

Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-)

Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.

Proto-Indo-European *sodós?

Proto-Hellenic *hodós

Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)

Ancient Greek μέθοδος f (méthodos)bor.

Latin methoduslbor.

Middle French methodebor.

English method

From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos). By surface analysis, met- +‎ -hod. See also -ode and hodo-.

Noun

method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)

(countable) 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.
- 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.
(uncountable) Systematicity, methodicalness, intentionality, order.
- 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: […]
- 1980 December 6, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 14:
  There's method in the universe.
  We're lucky that things aren't worse.
(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
- 2006, David A. Black, David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers, Manning, →ISBN, page 101:
  When you call the method, you provide values corresponding to these variables in your method call.
(slang) Marijuana.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
(dated) An instruction book systematically arranged.

Hyponyms

process by which a task is completed

programming, object-oriented: subroutine or function of a class or object

Derived terms

other derived terms (unsorted - many may be hyponyms too

Related terms

methodic, methodical → methodically
Methodius
methodology, methodological (methodologic)

Translations

process by which a task is completed

Afrikaans: metode (af)
Albanian: metodë (sq) f
Arabic: طَرِيقَة (ar) f (ṭarīqa), مِنْهَج m (minhaj), أُسْلُوب m (ʔuslūb), طَرْز m (ṭarz)
Armenian: եղանակ (hy) (eġanak), մեթոդ (hy) (metʻod), միջոց (hy) (miǰocʻ), կերպ (hy) (kerp)
Asturian: métodu m
Azerbaijani: üsul (az), metod
Bashkir: ысул (ïsul)
Basque: metodo
Belarusian: ме́тад m (mjétad), мэ́тад m (métad), спо́саб m (spósab), прыём m (pryjóm)
Bengali: পদ্ধতি (bn) (poddhoti), প্রণালী (bn) (pronali)
Bhojpuri: विधि (vidhi)
Bulgarian: ме́тод (bg) m (métod), на́чин (bg) m (náčin)
Burmese: နည်း (my) (nany:), နိဿယ (my) (ni.ssa.ya.), နည်းစနစ် (my) (nany:ca.nac), လုပ်နည်း (my) (lupnany:)
Catalan: mètode (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 方法 (fong¹ faat³), 方式 (fong¹ sik¹)

Hokkien: 方法 (zh-min-nan) (hong-hoat), 方式 (zh-min-nan) (hong-sek)

Mandarin: 方法 (zh) (fāngfǎ), 方式 (zh) (fāngshì)

Wu: 方法, 方式 (¹faon-seq)
Czech: metoda (cs) f, způsob (cs) m
Danish: metode c
Dutch: methode (nl) f
Esperanto: metodo (eo)
Estonian: meetod, viis (et)
Finnish: menetelmä (fi), metodi (fi)
French: méthode (fr) f, manière (fr) f
Galician: método (gl) m
Georgian: ხერხი (xerxi), მეთოდი (ka) (metodi)
German: Art und Weise (de) f, Methode (de) f, Verfahren (de) n
Greek: μέθοδος (el) f (méthodos)
Ancient Greek: μέθοδος f (méthodos)
Hebrew: מֶתוֹדָה (he) f (metóda), שיטה (he) f (shitá)
Hindi: विधि (hi) f (vidhi), तरीक़ा (hi) m (tarīqā), तरह (hi) f (tarah), रीति (hi) f (rīti), पद्धति (hi) f (paddhati), ढंग (hi) m (ḍhaṅg), प्रणाली (hi) f (praṇālī), शेवा (hi) m (śevā)
Hungarian: módszer (hu), eljárás (hu), metódus (hu), mód (hu), módozat (hu)
Icelandic: aðferð (is) f, háttur (is) m, skipulag n
Indonesian: metode (id)
Irish: slí f
Italian: metodo (it) m, maniera (it) f
Japanese: 方法 (ja) (ほうほう, hōhō), 方式 (ja) (ほうしき, hōshiki)
Kazakh: әдіс (ädis), ғилаж (ğıylaj)
Khmer: ពិធី (km) (pithii), វិធី (km) (vithii)
Korean: 방법(方法) (ko) (bangbeop), 방식(方式) (ko) (bangsik)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rebaz f, metod (ku), awa (ku)
Kyrgyz: усул (ky) (usul), ыкма (ky) (ıkma), метод (metod)
Lao: ວິທີ (lo) (wi thī)
Latin: via (la), methodus (la) f, disciplina f
Latvian: metode f
Lithuanian: metodas (lt) m
Lü: ᦞᦲᧉᦌᦱ (vii²saa)
Macedonian: метод m (metod), мето́да f (metóda), начин m (način)
Malay: kaedah, metode, manhaj (ms)
Māori: pēheatanga, pēwheatanga, aratuka
Marathi: पद्धत f (paddhat)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: арга (mn) (arga)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: metode (no) m

Nynorsk: metode m
Occitan: metòde (oc) m
Pali: vidhi m
Pashto: طريقه (ps) f (tariqá), مېتود (ps) m (metód), روش (ps) m (rawéš), طرز m (tarz), شيوه f (šiwá), اسلوب (ps) m (oslúb), نول (ps) m (nol)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: مِتُد (metod), رَوِش (raveš), شیوِه (šive), طَریقِه (tariġe), اُسْلوب (oslub), راه (fa) (râh), طَریق (tariġ), طَرْز (tarz)
Plautdietsch: Wies f
Polish: metoda (pl) f, sposób (pl) m
Portuguese: método (pt) m
Romanian: metodă (ro) f
Russian: ме́тод (ru) m (métod), спо́соб (ru) m (spósob), приём (ru) m (prijóm), мето́да (ru) f (metóda) (dated)
Rwanda-Rundi:
Kinyarwanda: ukuntu class 15
Sanskrit: मार्ग (sa) m (mārga), विधि (sa) m (vidhi)
Scottish Gaelic: cor m, modh m or f, dòigh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мето́да f, метод m, на́чин m

Latin: metóda (sh) f, metod m, náčin (sh) m
Slovak: metóda f, spôsob (sk) m
Slovene: metoda f, način m
Spanish: método (es) m
Swedish: metod (sv) c, tillvägagångssätt (sv) n, åtgärd, tillvägagång
Tagalog: pamamaraan
Tajik: усул (usul), тарз (tarz), тариқ (tariq), метод (metod), равиш (raviš), шива (šiva), тариқа (tariqa), услуб (tg) (uslub)
Tamil: முறைமை (ta) (muṟaimai), முறை (ta) (muṟai)
Tatar: ысул (tt) (ısul)
Telugu: పద్ధతి (te) (paddhati)
Thai: วิธี (th) (wí-tii)
Tocharian B: upacār
Turkish: yöntem (tr), usul (tr), metod (tr), tarz (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: چیغیر (çığır)
Turkmen: usul, metod
Tuvan: арга (arga)
Ukrainian: ме́тод (uk) m (métod), спо́сіб (uk) m (spósib), прийо́м m (pryjóm)
Urdu: طَرِیقَہ m (tarīqa), طَرَح f (tarah), طَرْح f (tarh), طَرِیق m (tarīq), اُسْلُوب m (uslūb), رَوِش f (raviś), طَرْز (ur) m (tarz), شیوَہ m (śeva)
Uyghur: تېرىقە (tëriqe), مېتود (mëtod), ئۇسۇل (usul)
Uzbek: usul (uz), yoʻsin (uz), metod (uz), tariqa (uz), tarz (uz), uslub (uz), yoʻl (uz)
Vietnamese: phương pháp (vi) (方法), phương thức (vi) (方式)
Volapük: metod
Welsh: dull (cy)
Yiddish: מעטאָד m (metod)
Zazaki: metod, usul, uslub
Zulu: icebo (zu) class 5/6, indlela (zu) class 9/10, isu class 5/6

type of acting

Bashkir: ысул (ïsul)
Finnish: metodinäytteleminen (fi)
French: La Méthode (fr) f
Galician: método (gl) m
Greek: μέθοδος (el) f (méthodos)
Italian: metodo (it) m
Korean: 메서드 연기 (meseodeu yeon'gi), 메소드 연기 (mesodeu yeon'gi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rêbaz (ku) f
Romagnol: régula f
Romanian: metodă (ro) f
Scottish Gaelic: cor m
Spanish: method (es)
Zazaki: uslub

programming: subroutine or function in object-oriented languages

Catalan: mètode (ca) m
Czech: metoda (cs) f
Danish: metode c
Finnish: jäsenfunktio (fi), metodi (fi)
German: Methode (de) f
Greek: μέθοδος (el) f (méthodos)
Hebrew: פעולה (he) (pe'ulah)
Hungarian: metódus (hu), tagfüggvény
Icelandic: aðferð (is) f
Italian: metodo (it) m
Japanese: メソッド (ja) (mesoddo)
Korean: 메소드 (mesodeu), 메서드 (meseodeu)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хэрэглүүр (mn) (xereglüür)
Polish: metoda (pl) f
Portuguese: método (pt) m
Spanish: método (es) m

instruction book

French: méthode (fr) f

Verb

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?"
(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

to apply a method

Finnish: käyttää menetelmää

to apply particular treatment methods to a mold

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

method (plural methods)

(skateboarding, snowboarding) Ellipsis of method air.

Anagrams

mothed

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