English Explanatory Dictionary

program

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
  2. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
  3. A set of principal goals which someone, especially a political party or candidate, supports.
  4. A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
  5. A computer program.
  6. A particular mindset or method of doing things.
  7. A custom tracklist.
verb
  1. To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
  2. To develop (software) by writing program code.
  3. To put together the schedule of an event.
  4. To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
  5. To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.

Pronunciation

prōʹgrăm' /ˈpɹəʊ̯ˌɡɹæm/ /ˈpɹoʊ̯ˌɡɹæm/ en-us-program.ogg /ˈpɹoʊ̯ˌɡɹeə̯m/ /ˈpɹoʊ̯ˌɡɹɛə̯m/ /ˈpɹəʉˌɡɹæm/ /ˈproˌɡram/ /prɵˈɡram/ prōʹgrəm /ˈpɹɜʊ̯ɡɹəm/ /ˈproɡrəm/

Word forms

program programs programme programming programing programmed programed

Etymology

Borrowed from French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “to set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). Doublet of programma.

Synonyms

application computer program playbill platform show

Derived words

antiprogram apparatus program application program applications program authoring program bioprogram computer program counterprogram deprogram developer program dividend reinvestment program exit program get with the program interprogram Langlands program metaprogram microprogram misprogram multiprogram nonprogram not with the program outprogram overprogram preprogram programable program cabinet program committee program counter program evaluation and review technique program evaluation review technique program guide programless programme block program music program slicer program trading programwide reprogram superprogram sustaining program teleprogram television program time-bound program TV program twelve-step program utility program wilderness program work-study program zombie program programmable programmatical programmatically programmer

Translations

Afrikaans: program Albanian: program Arabic: بَرْنَامَج Armenian: ծրագիր Azerbaijani: proqram Belarusian: прагра́ма Bengali: প্রোগ্রাম Breton: goulev Breton: program Bulgarian: програ́ма Burmese: ပရိုဂရမ် Carpathian Rusyn: проґрам Catalan: programa Chinese Cantonese: 應用程式 /应用程式 Chinese Cantonese: 程序 Chinese Cantonese: 程式 Chinese Mandarin: 應用程式 /应用程式 Chinese Mandarin: 程序 Chinese Mandarin: 程式 Czech: program Danish: program Dutch: programma Esperanto: programaro Estonian: programm Finnish: ohjelma French: programme Galician: programa Georgian: პროგრამა German: Programm Greek: πρόγραμμα Gujarati: ક્રમાદેશ Hebrew: תוכנית Hebrew: תׇּכְנִית Hindi: प्रोग्राम Hindi: क्रमादेश Hungarian: program Icelandic: forrit Icelandic: tölvuforrit Ido: komputeroprogramo Indonesian: tata olah Indonesian: program Irish: ríomhchlár Italian: programma Japanese: プログラム Japanese: 算譜 Kazakh: бағдарлама Kazakh: программа Khmer: កម្មវិធី Korean: 프로그램 Central Kurdish: پرۆگرام Central Kurdish: بەرنامە Northern Kurdish: program Northern Kurdish: bername
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