Sequence and Method

noun

• Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.
  • usage: "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
• A following of one thing after another in time.
  • usage: "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
  • synonyms: chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession
• Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.
  • synonyms: episode
• The action of following in order.
  • usage: "he played the trumps in sequence"
  • synonyms: succession
• Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.

verb

• Arrange in a sequence.
• Determine the order of constituents in.
  • usage: "They sequenced the human genome"

• (n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
• (n.) Simple succession or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
• (n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
• (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
• (n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
• (n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
• (n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
• (n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

noun

• A way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps. )
• An acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed.
  • synonyms: method acting

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
• (n.) 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.