English
/pro' grahm/ or /pro grahm'/
Alternate spelling
programme (British, in all senses except the computing sense)
Almost homophones
Noun
program (plural: programs)
- A set of structured activities.
- Our program for today's exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
- A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- Note: In an effort to appear exotic, this is occasionally spelled programme in the USA.
- A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
- Tonight's program was sponsored by the Wiktionary dictionary and Wikipedia encyclopedia.
- A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.
- The program runs on both Linux® and Microsoft Windows®.
- A particular mindset or method of doing things.
- Come on, John, why don't you get with the program and tell him where the detonators are? - Ellis in the movie Die Hard.
Synonyms
Translations
- Polish: program m
- Slovak: program m
- Swedish: #Swedish|program (1,2,3,4) n
Transitive verb
to program (programs, past tense and past participle programmed, programming)
- To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
Translations
- Slovak: programovať
- Swedish: programmera
Related terms
Slovak
Noun
program m, programy pl
- program
Swedish
Noun
program n
- A set of structured activities.
- Our program for today's exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
- A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
- Tonight's program was sponsored by the Wiktionary dictionary and Wikipedia encyclopedia.
- (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.
- A A programme/program on a washing machine; a cycle
