Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A listing of the order of events and other pertinent information for a public presentation.
- noun The presentation itself.
- noun A scheduled radio or television show.
- noun An ordered list of events to take place or procedures to be followed; a schedule.
- noun A system of services, opportunities, or projects, usually designed to meet a social need.
- noun A course of academic study; a curriculum.
- noun A plan or system of academic and related or ancillary activities.
- noun A plan or system of nonacademic extracurricular activities.
- noun A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations.
- noun An instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
- noun All or part of the genetic code of a cell or organism.
- noun A characteristic sequence of developmental or behavioral events in a cell or organism, often considered to result from the expression of genes.
- noun A stimulus or training sequence that causes an organism to exhibit a behavior, as by conditioning.
- transitive verb To include or schedule in a program.
- transitive verb To design a program for; schedule the activities of.
- transitive verb To provide (a machine) with a set of coded working instructions.
- transitive verb To stimulate or train to perform automatically in a specified way.
- transitive verb To prepare an instructional sequence for (material to be taught) in programmed instruction.
- transitive verb To provide (a cell or organism, for example) with a genetic program.
- transitive verb To cause (an effect or action) by means of a genetic program; determine genetically.
- idiom (get with the program) To follow or conform to a set of guidelines or expectations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
program music , or the chain of thoughts or images that suggests and characterizes such music. - To make a program of; enter consecutively in or as in a program.
- noun A written or printed list of the pieces or selections which constitute a musical, theatrical, or other performance or entertainment, set down in the order of their performance or exhibition.
- noun Hence The collection of such pieces or selections. The several pieces are often called
numbers . - noun A method of operation or line of procedure prepared or announced beforehand; an outline or abstract of something to be done or carried out: as, the program of the new administration; the program of a school or university.
- noun A preface; prolegomena; a preliminary or introductory statement or announcement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
programme .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A set of structured
activities . - noun A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- noun A performance of a
show or otherbroadcast onradio ortelevision . - noun computing : A
software application, or acollection of softwareapplications , designed to perform a specifictask . - noun A particular mindset or
method of doing things. - verb transitive To enter a program or other
instructions into (acomputer or other electronicdevice ) to instruct it to do a particular task. - verb transitive To develop (software) by writing program code.
- verb transitive To put together the
schedule of anevent . - verb transitive To cause to
automatically behave in a particular way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange a program of or for
- noun a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
- noun (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- noun an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- noun a radio or television show
- verb write a computer program
- noun a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
- noun a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- noun an integrated course of academic studies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I chose that program based on the _program_ and my second time around in the application process I didn't apply to INRU or its biggest competitor because I knew they wouldn't be right for me.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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I tried to install a program and after I get the message the installation program could not create the folder "C: \program file\VSO\ConvertX\3" and Error5: Access denied, I tried to restore my sistem to an earlier date to undo all the changes that I had made, and to my surprise I found that I had no restore point available.
DaniWeb IT Discussion Community GEORGE V 2010
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I tried to install a program and after I get the message the installation program could not create the folder "C: \program file\VSO\ConvertX\3" and Error5: Access denied, I tried to restore my sistem to an earlier date to undo all the changes that I had made, and to my surprise I found that I had no restore point available.
DaniWeb IT Discussion Community GEORGE V 2010
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Recent surveys of likely voters suggest the Democrats 'Make it in American program is exactly what Americans want and believe the country needs.
Leo W. Gerard: No Fluke: Republicans Support Off-Shoring Jobs Leo W. Gerard 2010
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Recent surveys of likely voters suggest the Democrats 'Make it in American program is exactly what Americans want and believe the country needs.
Leo W. Gerard: No Fluke: Republicans Support Off-Shoring Jobs Leo W. Gerard 2010
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Maybe it's the onset of the Grumpy Old Man syndrome, but Ottawa's new Green Bin program is giving me the pip.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Students may be assigned to a self-contained classroom based on competence i.e., a TAG program or they may be in a homogeneous classroom and placed in special groups for subjects such as math and reading.
Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010
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But as the tiny file folders flew across the screen some stopped, and the computer indicated that the particular papers were so old the Word program had changed to a different version and the computer would have to convert them before saving them to the hard drive.
Bodily Harm Robert Dugoni 2010
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Students may be assigned to a self-contained classroom based on competence i.e., a TAG program or they may be in a homogeneous classroom and placed in special groups for subjects such as math and reading.
Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010
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Students may be assigned to a self-contained classroom based on competence i.e., a TAG program or they may be in a homogeneous classroom and placed in special groups for subjects such as math and reading.
Testing for Kindergarten Karen Quinn 2010
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