Meaning

13 senses
  1. (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.

  2. (countable, uncountable)An amendment to an official treaty.

    протоко́лprotokól

    протоко́лprotokól

  3. (countable, uncountable)The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The original notes of observations made during an experiment.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.

  7. (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

  8. (broadly, countable, uncountable)An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.

    code of correct conduct

  9. (countable, uncountable)A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.

    Protokoll

    протоко́лprotokól

    протоко́лprotokól

  10. (countable, uncountable)The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.

  11. (countable, uncountable)The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.

  12. (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 sentences
  1. There are protocols to follow.

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  2. Check the protocol.

    Перевірте протокол.

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  3. Sami is familiar with the protocol.

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  4. They have to learn diplomatic protocol.

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  5. They are constrained by diplomatic protocol.

    deDas diplomatische Protokoll schränkt sie ein.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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diplomatic document:
Русский
By meaning 1
diplomatic document:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
computing:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin pr

Borrowed 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: protocols
Singularprotocol
Pluralprotocols

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
original notes of observations made during an experiment:procedureB2
official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries:policyB1modalities
data type defining a set of members:interface
Close in meaning

Word family

18 related words

See also

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