Noun

A particular method for performing a task.

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A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.

(label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

* (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)

Gracious procedures .

(label) That which results; issue; product.

(Bacon)

(label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.

(label) A surgical operation.

Noun

An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.

* 1962 , William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes (page 34)

A group of slenderer yu''''' also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design A '''''yu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.

Nephrite or jadeite.

* 1818 , Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China , page 133:

The Yu , although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms

* 1826 , The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies :

Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite

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