program
- a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- a plan or schedule of activities, procedures, etc., to be followed.
- a broadcasted television or radio production or similar Internet-based content produced for distribution.
- a list of items, pieces, performers, etc., in a musical, theatrical, or other entertainment.
- an entertainment with reference to its pieces or numbers: a program of American and French music.
- a planned, coordinated group of activities, procedures, etc., often for a specific purpose, or a facility offering such a series of activities: a drug rehabilitation program; a graduate program in linguistics.
- a prospectus or syllabus: a program of courses being offered.
- Also called computer program. Digital Technology. a precise sequence of instructions enabling a computer to perform a task; a piece of software.
- to schedule as part of a program.
- Digital Technology. to write code for (a computer program or application).
- to insert or encode specific operating instructions into (a machine or apparatus): We'll program the bells to ring at ten-minute intervals.
- to insert (instructions) into a machine or apparatus: An automatic release has been programmed into the lock as a safety feature.
- to cause to absorb or incorporate automatic responses, attitudes, or the like; condition: Our parents programmed us to respect our elders.
- to set, regulate, or modify so as to produce a specific response or reaction: Program your eating habits to eliminate sweets.
- to plan or write a program.
- Digital Technology. to write computer code.
Origin of program
Examples from the Web for program
Contemporary Examples
The program has not made a final selection on which upgrades will actually be included in future versions of the F-35.
In fact, according to F-35 program sources, the next software upgrades are not yet fully defined nor are they fully funded.
But the program is just six weeks long, the Pentagon admitted Monday.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’Nancy A. Youssef
January 6, 2015
By 2011, Airbus was working on a program to replicate these conditions in a flight simulator for use in pilot training.
They even switched off their location service—one of the main perks of the program.
Historical Examples
His program was as simple as the curriculum of a Persian youth.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
The next day and the next evening Eleanore's program was carried out.
The HarborErnest Poole
The program of entertainment was awful enough, if deadly mediocrity is awful.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
Therefore our only weapons must be our own intelligence—at least that will be the program for Eyer and me.
Lords of the StratosphereArthur J. Burks
He had watched a program just last month, and it had been startlingly lifelike.
Cost of LivingRobert Sheckley
program
sometimes programme
- a sequence of coded instructions fed into a computer, enabling it to perform specified logical and arithmetical operations on data
- (tr) to feed a program into (a computer)
- (tr) to arrange (data) into a suitable form so that it can be processed by a computer
- (intr) to write a program
Word Origin and History for program
n.
1630s, "public notice," from Late Latin programma "proclamation, edict," from Greek programma "a written public notice," from stem of prographein "to write publicly," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
General sense of "a definite plan or scheme" is recorded from 1837. Meaning "list of pieces at a concert, playbill" first recorded 1805 and retains the original sense. That of "objects or events suggested by music" is from 1854. Sense of "broadcasting presentation" is from 1923. Computer sense (noun and verb) is from 1945. Spelling programme, established in Britain, is from French in modern use and began to be used early 19c., originally especially in the "playbill" sense. Program music attested from 1877.
v.
1889, "write program notes;" 1896, "arrange according to program," from program (n.). Of computers from 1945. From 1963 in the figurative sense of "to train to behave in a predetermined way." Related: Programmed; programming.
program
- A organized system of instructions and data interpreted by a computer. Programming instructions are often referred to as code. See more at source code. See also programming language.
program
A series of instructions given to a computer to direct it to carry out certain operations. The term code is often used to denote large-scale operations.