protocol
The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transactionThe minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.
» There are protocols to follow.
Meaning
13 senses(countable, historical, uncountable)The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.
(countable, uncountable)An amendment to an official treaty.
протоко́лprotokól
протоко́лprotokól
(countable, uncountable)The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
(countable, uncountable)The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
(countable, uncountable)The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
(countable, uncountable)The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
(countable, uncountable)The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.
протоко́лprotokól
протоко́лprotokól
(broadly, countable, uncountable)An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
code of correct conduct
(countable, uncountable)A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
Protokoll
протоко́лprotokól
протоко́лprotokól
(countable, uncountable)The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
(countable, uncountable)The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
(countable, uncountable)In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.
Examples
58 sentencesThere are protocols to follow.
Check the protocol.
Перевірте протокол.
Sami is familiar with the protocol.
They have to learn diplomatic protocol.
They are constrained by diplomatic protocol.
deDas diplomatische Protokoll schränkt sie ein.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin prBorrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
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Forms
plural: protocolsSynonyms
5 synonyms- (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data:communications protocol
Word family
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable