'the Method' definitions:
Definition of 'the Method'
From: GCIDE
- Method \Meth"od\, n. [F. m['e]thode, L. methodus, fr. Gr. meqodos method, investigation following after; meta` after + "odo`s way.]
- 1. An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual. [1913 Webster]
- Though this be madness, yet there's method in it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- All method is a rational progress, a progress toward an end. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Nat. Hist.) Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A technique used in acting in which the actor tries to identify with the individual personality of the specific character being portrayed, so as to provide a realistic rendering of the character's role. Also called {the Method}, method acting, the Stanislavsky Method or Stanislavsky System. [PJC]
- Syn: Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course; process; means.
- Usage: Method, Mode, Manner. Method implies arrangement; mode, mere action or existence. Method is a way of reaching a given end by a series of acts which tend to secure it; mode relates to a single action, or to the form which a series of acts, viewed as a whole, exhibits. Manner is literally the handling of a thing, and has a wider sense, embracing both method and mode. An instructor may adopt a good method of teaching to write; the scholar may acquire a bad mode of holding his pen; the manner in which he is corrected will greatly affect his success or failure. [1913 Webster] Methodic
Words containing 'the Method'
- Method,
- Methodic,
- Methodical,
- Methodically,
- Methodism,
- Methodization,
- Methodize,
- Methodized,
- Methodizer,
- Methodizing,
- Baconian method,
- Cascade method,
- Centrobaric method,
- Endermic method,
- Graphic method,
- Inductive method,
- Lunar method,
- Method of increments,
- Method of indivisibles,
- Montessori Method,
- Null method,
- Scientific method,
- Sentence method,
- Sexual method,
- Socratic method,
- Word method,
- Zero method,
- Zetetic method,
- bradley method,
- calendar method,
- contraceptive method,
- eclectic method,
- experimental method,
- gram method,
- gram's method,
- lamaze method,
- leboyer method,
- maieutic method,
- method acting,
- method of accounting,
- method of choice,
- method of fluxions,
- ovulation method,
- powder method,
- read method,
- relaxation method,
- rhythm method,
- statistical method,
- teaching method,
- withdrawal method,
- bradley method of childbirth,
- lamaze method of childbirth,
- leboyer method of childbirth,
- method of least squares,
- read method of childbirth,
- basal body temperature method,
- calendar method of birth control,
- ovulation method of family planning,
- rhythm method of birth control,
- straight-line method,
- whole-word method,
- straight-line method of depreciation,
- basal body temperature method of family planning