method
noun/ˈmeθəd/
Слово англійською: method
Переклад method українською: метод
Детальний опис
- [countable] a particular way of doing something
- Which method is the most effective?
- traditional/alternative methods
- method of something a scientific method of data analysis
- method of doing something a reliable method of measuring blood pressure
- method for (doing) something the best method for arriving at an accurate prediction of the costs
- method to do something Developing new methods to keep insects out of food packages is critical.
- to use/employ/apply a method
- to devise/propose/adopt a method
- He's quite critical of modern teaching methods.
- [uncountable] the quality of being well planned and organized
- There's very little method in his approach.
- We have to apply some method to this investigation.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘prescribed medical treatment for a disease’): via Latin from Greek methodos ‘pursuit of knowledge’, from meta- (expressing development) + hodos ‘way’.
Idioms
there’s (a) method in somebody’s madness
- there is a reason for somebody’s behaviour and it is not as strange or as stupid as it seems