Used in a Sentence

methods

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for methods.

Editorial note

I'm primarily concerned with methods, ways, advice of how to work using agile methods and how to develop webapps fast.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(uncountable) Systematicity, methodicalness, intentionality, order

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of methods gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable) Systematicity, methodicalness, intentionality, order

noun

(object-oriented programming) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.

noun

(slang) Marijuana.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for methods.

noun

(uncountable) Systematicity, methodicalness, intentionality, order

noun

(object-oriented programming) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.

noun

(slang) Marijuana.

noun

(dated) An instruction book systematically arranged.

Example sentences

1

I'm primarily concerned with methods, ways, advice of how to work using agile methods and how to develop webapps fast.

2

Ruby supports closures and passing methods to methods.

3

Path tracing methods (bi-directional, Metropolis, etc.) converge on the exact solution, regardless of how noisy each individual rendering is.

4

Method overloading depends on the method signatures being different, but in this case the methods differ only in name.

5

Linkedin, Github, Twitter) and use complex algorithmic and statistical methods to match disparate social profiles.

6

Move up to conditionals, loops, add in methods later in a sort of procedural fashion.

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Our SRE team scales thousands of deployed systems using smart programmatic methods that we design, architect, and code.

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The real world speed improvements from specific methods are the significant part.

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My preparation methods don't keep up, I get bored, it turns out to not be a very balanced meal, etc.

10

I like some aspects of the new system, including sharing payment methods, and so on.

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Role responsibilities include development of dynamic and automatic optimization technologies using hardware acceleration, defining and implementing benchmarking methods, as well as performance tuning, optimization and root cause analysis.

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• Research, implementation, and testing of new analysis methods in computational genomics, in particular related to sequence analysis and metagenomics.

Quote examples

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You're then left to choose between explaining classes and methods ("what's static?

2

If you don't know the type which a name references (or whether it is nil), you have to figure that out before you call any methods on it, in an "external" way.

3

If there is a pair of methods name, name$, method ends with $ means calling this method will change the object itself, while calling the other won't." This seems very un-Java - surely the Java way to achieve this would be method overloading.

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"== nil" is just as short as ".nil?" and isn't as wacky as intentionally calling methods of nil (and every other object needing to have this nil-specific interface).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use methods in a sentence?

I'm primarily concerned with methods, ways, advice of how to work using agile methods and how to develop webapps fast.

What does methods mean?

(uncountable) Systematicity, methodicalness, intentionality, order

What part of speech is methods?

methods is commonly used as noun.