Definition of method

"method" in the noun sense

1. method

a way of doing something, especially a systematic way implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

2. method acting, method

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

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Quotations for method

Each mind has its own method. [ Emerson ]

Methods are the masters of masters. [ Talleyrand ]

Method is the arithmetic of success. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Religion is not a method, but a life. [ Amiel ]

Gentle in method, resolute in action. [ From the Latin ]

There is but one method, and that is hard labor. [ Sydney Smith ]

Art and science have their meeting-point in method. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Nature works on the method of all for each and each for all. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There's a method in man's wickedness: it grows up by degrees. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. [ Goldsmith ]

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. [ Madame Swetchine ]

To leave this keen encounter of our wits, and fall somewhat into a slower method. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. [ Margaret Fuller ]

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so efficient as their stringent execution. [ U. S. Grant ]

No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others. [ John Ruskin ]

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. [ Addison ]

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. [ Bishop Horne ]

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. [ Gibbon ]

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts. [ Newton ]

To guide scoundrels by love is a method that will not hold together; hardly for the flower of men will love do; and for the sediment and scoundrelism of them it has not even a chance to do. [ Carlyle ]

The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. [ Carlyle ]

If there is excellence in my composition, set it down, first of all things and last, to the general fact that I have no method. Modes of expression in writing, like modes of expression in speech, are referable purely to feeling, not studied, but of the moment. [ Gen. Lew Wallace, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]

My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our reason. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them - to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. [ R. Whately ]

method in Scrabble®

The word method is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters method:

METHOD
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word method

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method in Words With Friends™

The word method is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters method:

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Words within the letters of method

2 letter words in method (7 words)

3 letter words in method (12 words)

4 letter words in method (11 words)

5 letter words in method (1 word)

6 letter words in method (1 word)

method + 1 blank (3 words)

method + 2 blanks (5 words)

Word Growth involving method

Shorter words in method

me met

Longer words containing method

antimethodic antimethodical

methodical antimethodical

methodical methodically

methodical methodicalness

methodical nonmethodical

methodical unmethodical

methodisation methodisations

methodise methodised

methodise methodiser methodisers

methodise methodises

methodising

methodist methodistic methodistical methodistically

methodist methodists

methodization methodizations

methodize methodized

methodize methodizer methodizers

methodize methodizes

methodizing

methodless

methodological methodologically nonmethodologically

methodological nonmethodological nonmethodologically

methodologies

methodologist methodologists

methodology

methods micromethods

methods multimethods

micromethod micromethods

multimethod multimethods