Method Definition

mĕthəd
methods
noun
methods
A way of doing something; procedure; process; esp., a regular, orderly, definite procedure or way of teaching, investigating, etc.
Webster's New World
Regularity and orderliness in action, thought, or expression; system in doing things or handling ideas.
Webster's New World
Regular, orderly arrangement.
Webster's New World
The procedures and techniques characteristic of a particular discipline or field of knowledge.
This field course gives an overview of archaeological method.
American Heritage
A technique of acting in which the actor recalls emotions and reactions from past experience and uses them in identifying with and individualizing the character being portrayed.
American Heritage
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adjective

Using or suggestive of the Method.

A method actor.
Webster's New World
idiom
the Method
  • a realistic style of acting in which the actor strives for close personal identification with the role being played
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Method

Noun

Singular:
method
Plural:
methods

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Method

  • the Method

Origin of Method

  • Middle English medical procedure from Latin methodus method from Greek methodos pursuit, method meta- beyond, after meta– hodos way, journey

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek μέθοδος (methodos, “pursuit of knowledge, investigation, mode of prosecuting such inquiry, system"), from μετά (meta, “after") + ὁδός (hodos, “way, motion, journey").

    From Wiktionary

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