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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.
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; 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; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
- Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.
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