Protocol

Protocol

Etymology

French protocole, Late Latin protocollum, from Greek: the first leaf glued to the rolls of papyrus and the notarial documents, on which the date was written; prw^tos the first (see Proto- + glue.)

Examples

• A rule, guideline, or document which guides how an activity should be performed.
• The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.
• The minutes, or rough draft, of an instrument or transaction.
• (diplomacy) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.
• (diplomacy) A convention not formally ratified.
• (diplomacy) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.
• (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data, especially across a network. A message syntax or electrical specification and a description 2 or more communication nodes: finite state machines, the transition functions of which take messages or times as input and, when then so triggered, may themselves send messages.

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Etiquette

Main article: Etiquette

Etymology

From French étiquette, property, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket.

Examples

The French Court of Louis XIV at Versailles used étiquettes, little cards, to remind courtiers to keep off of the grass and similar rules.

Manners

Main article: Manners

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman manere, from Old French maniere, from Vulgar Latin *manaria, from feminine of Latin manuarius ("`belonging to the hand'"), from manus ("`hand'")

Examples

• Mode of action; a way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
• The treacherous manner of his mournful death. - Shakespeare
• Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.
• Customary method of acting; habit.
• These people have strange manners.
• Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
• The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
• Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.

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