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A routine describes A set of customary or unchanging and often mechanically performed activities or procedures: a routine of housekeeping So your sentence would be: Please people, we need …

Interface is the common term for such a collection of controls and displays. interface, n.: A device or program for connecting two [or more] items of hardware or software so that they can be opera …

There are a number of articles online that call it simultaneous invention or simultaneous discovery: This phenomenon of simultaneous discovery—what science historians call “multiples”—turns out …

In the context of your sentence, vital works well (in the sense of being essential, necessary, or indispensable). There are many synonym resources online, but I find the English Synonym Dictionary in …

How about intermission? Especially in the sense of "recess at school." Smoking has become part of my routine, an intermission to my day, if you will, rather than an addiction.

To quote the well-know credit card ad: priceless.

A permanent solution is said to be definitive: serving to supply a final answer, solution, or evaluation and to end an unsettled unresolved condition

Someone who performs a task with meticulous attention to performing it correctly can be said to be conscientious.

In a bruise, or in clouds at dusk, or in an angry person's face, this process of darkening in color is called purpling. When you make a color darker, artists and designers generally say that they dee …

RSVP means répondez, s’il vous plaît – “please reply.” While Thesaurus.com lists RRSP as a synonym of RSVP, the link for RRSP takes you right back to RSVP. This person faced the same dilemma of seei …

M-W Unabridged defines ride roughshod over as to treat with disdain or abuse You don't mention the context, but if you're looking for a one-word synonym with punch, try diss: diss, verb. (US …

Simply use we: We are partners. We are seeing each other exclusively. We are boyfriend and girlfriend. (If you really need to spell it out...)

Most open source licenses (and copyright law) would refer to a project that reuses and depends upon your previous work as a derivative work. So [as FF mentioned] the newer project is derivative of yo …

By analogy with bibliophile (one who loves books), you can use scribophile (one who loves writing). (There's even an online writing group by that name.) If by "hobbyist" you imply "amateur" (in the …

According to M-W, ubiquity is omnipresence. The distinction you're making doesn't exist for the noun forms. For the adjective ubiquitous, it's interesting to note that, while the free version of M-W …