Noun: method
| Singular | method |
| Plural | methods |
Sample Sentences
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If one method doesn't work, you should ask a friend to help you.
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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. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
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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. [2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2013, pages 206–7:]
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Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […] [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:]
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There's method in the universe.
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We're lucky that things aren't worse. [1980 December 6, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 14:]
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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. [1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 64:]
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When you call the method, you provide values corresponding to these variables in your method call. [2006, David A. Black, David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers, Manning, →ISBN, page 101:]
Nouns inflected like method
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *me
3. Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
4. Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
5. Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-)
6. Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
7. Proto-Indo-European *sodós?
8. Proto-Hellenic *hodós
9. Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)
10. Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos)bor.
11. Latin methodusbor.
12. Middle French methodebor.
13. English method
14. From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos). By surface analysis, met- + -hod. See also -ode and hodo-. See: Latin Nouns '
methodus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μέθοδος'.