program
See also: prògram
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- programme (see usage notes)
Etymology
[edit]From French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “I set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of programma.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæm/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: prōʹgrăm', IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/
- (Southern US) enPR: prōʹgrəm, IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊɡɹəm/
- (Wales, Canada, dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoːɡɹəm/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoːɡɹɑːm/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: programme
- Hyphenation: pro‧gram
Noun
[edit]program (plural programs)
- A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
- Hyponym: curriculum
- Coordinate terms: agenda, schedule
- get with the program
- Our program for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
- A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- The program consisted of ads for restaurants and the credits of everyone connected with the play.
- (politics) A set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate.
- Synonym: platform
- (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
- Tonight’s program was hosted by Johnny Carson.
- (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.
- (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
- 1988, Die Hard:
- Ellis: Come on, John, why don’t you get with the program and tell him where the detonators are?
- (music, computing) A custom tracklist.
- program playback
- playing tracks in a custom order
Usage notes
[edit]- Usage of program and programme:
- US: program is the only spelling normally used, no matter which sense it is used in.
- UK: programme is used in all cases except for computer code, in which case program is generally used. However, programme is occasionally used for computer code, and some still consider it the only correct spelling even with this meaning.
- Canada: both program and programme are used, but program is more common.
- Australia: program is endorsed by the Macquarie Dictionary and is frequently used in both formal and informal settings.
- New Zealand: programme is favoured by New Zealand dictionaries, and is endorsed by government usage; program is rarely seen outside the computing meaning.
- Singapore: program and programme are interchangeable (the latter is more common), but only program is used in computing.
Synonyms
[edit]- (broadcast) show
- (leaflet) playbill (for a play)
- (software application) application, computer program
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- antiprogram
- application program
- applications program
- authoring program
- bioprogram
- computer program
- counterprogram
- deprogram
- developer program
- dividend reinvestment program
- exit program
- fellow management program
- get with the program
- interprogram
- Langlands program
- metaprogram
- microprogram
- misprogram
- multiprogram
- nonprogram
- not with the program
- outprogram
- overprogram
- preprogram
- programable
- 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
- zombie program
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]set of structured activities
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leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity
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set of political goals
performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television
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software application
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Verb
[edit]program (third-person singular simple present programs, present participle programming or programing, simple past and past participle programmed or programed)
- (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
- He programmed the DVR to record his favorite show.
- (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
- I programmed a small game as a demonstration.
- (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
- Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.
- (broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
- 1956, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 5, page 2586:
- We program for special audience groups, too, as shown by our Mexican language program each Sunday morning.
- (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
- The lab rat was programmed to press the lever when the bell rang.
- 1982 December 18, Andrea Loewenstein, “Soap Author Responds”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:
- My point was not to commend but to expose her, and her way of thinking. In another place a teenage character worries that her stomach is too big. I, the author don't think her stomach is too big—the character does, because she's been programmed that way.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to enter a program or other instructions into a computer
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to write code
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to put together the schedule of an event
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to cause to automatically behave in a particular way
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Further reading
[edit]- “program”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “program”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Albanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]program m
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]program m inan
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “program”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “program”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “program”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Friulian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).
Noun
[edit]program m (plural programs)
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Programm or English program, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]program (plural programok)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | program | programok |
| accusative | programot | programokat |
| dative | programnak | programoknak |
| instrumental | programmal | programokkal |
| causal-final | programért | programokért |
| translative | programmá | programokká |
| terminative | programig | programokig |
| essive-formal | programként | programokként |
| essive-modal | programul | — |
| inessive | programban | programokban |
| superessive | programon | programokon |
| adessive | programnál | programoknál |
| illative | programba | programokba |
| sublative | programra | programokra |
| allative | programhoz | programokhoz |
| elative | programból | programokból |
| delative | programról | programokról |
| ablative | programtól | programoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
programé | programoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
programéi | programokéi |
| Possessive forms of program | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | programom | programjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | programod | programjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | programja | programjai |
| 1st person plural | programunk | programjaink |
| 2nd person plural | programotok | programjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | programjuk | programjaik |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Expressions
References
[edit]- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- program in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch program, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”). Doublet of programa.
- For the sense in computing, semantic loan from English program.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]program (plural program-program, first-person possessive programku, second-person possessive programmu, third-person possessive programnya)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “program” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Ladin
[edit]Noun
[edit]program m (plural programs)
Malay
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]program (Jawi spelling ڤروݢرم, plural program-program, informal 1st possessive programku, 2nd possessive programmu, 3rd possessive programnya)
Further reading
[edit]- “program” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]program n (definite singular programmet, indefinite plural program or programmer, definite plural programma or programmene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “program” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]program n (definite singular programmet, indefinite plural program, definite plural programma)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “program” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French programme.[1][2] First attested in the 19th cenetury.[3][4]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]program m inan (diminutive programik, related adjective programowy)
- program (a set of structured activities; a plan of action)
- program (list of goals of an organization)
- program (a leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity)
- (broadcasting) program (a performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television)
- program (list of information relating to broadcasts)
- program (set of broadcasts)
- program (range of information a teacher teaches)
- (computing) program (a software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task)
- program (set of actions determined by a computer program)
- (music) program (extra-musical element, e.g. a literary text, a painting to which the composer of a musical piece refers, signaling it in its title, playing a fundamental role in the listener's interpretation of the piece)
- program (series of elements of a play, performance, etc., following each other in a specific order)
Declension
[edit]Declension of program
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | program | programy |
| genitive | programu | programów |
| dative | programowi | programom |
| accusative | program | programy |
| instrumental | programem | programami |
| locative | programie | programach |
| vocative | programie | programy |
Related terms
[edit]adjective
adverb
nouns
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), program is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 67 times in news, 93 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 179 times, making it the 323rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “program”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “program”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “program”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “program”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “program”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 436
Further reading
[edit]- program in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- program in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “program”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 1010
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French programme.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]program n (plural programe)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | program | programul | programe | programele | |
| genitive-dative | program | programului | programe | programelor | |
| vocative | programule | programelor | |||
Related terms
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Noun
[edit]prògram m (Cyrillic spelling про̀грам)
Declension
[edit]Declension of program
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | program | programi |
| genitive | programa | programa |
| dative | programu | programima |
| accusative | program | programe |
| vocative | programe | programi |
| locative | programu | programima |
| instrumental | programom | programima |
Further reading
[edit]- “program”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]program m inan (genitive singular programu, nominative plural programy, genitive plural programov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
[edit]Declension of program (pattern dub)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | program | programy |
| genitive | programu | programov |
| dative | programu | programom |
| accusative | program | programy |
| locative | programe | programoch |
| instrumental | programom | programami |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “program”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).
Noun
[edit]program n
- a program (a set of structured activities)
- a program (a leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity)
- a program (a performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television)
- Hyponyms: radioprogram, TV-program
- (computing) a software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task
- a program on a washing machine; a cycle
- an education at gymnasium level
- Synonym: linje (dated)
Declension
[edit]Declension of program
Hyponyms
[edit]Sense: education at gymnasium level
- barn- och fritidsprogrammet (the child recreation programme)
- bygg- och anläggningsprogrammet (the construction programme)
- ekonomiprogrammet (the economic programme)
- el- och energiprogrammet (the electrical engineering and energy programme)
- estetiska programmet (the arts programme)
- fordons- och transportprogrammet (the vehicle engineering and transport programme)
- handels- och administrationsprogrammet (the business and administration programme)
- hantverksprogrammet (the handicraft programme)
- hotell- och turismprogrammet (the hotel and tourism programme)
- humanistiska programmet (the humanities programme)
- industritekniska programmet (the industial programme)
- naturbruksprogrammet (the natural resource use programme)
- naturvetenskapsprogrammet (the natural science programme)
- restaurang- och livsmedelsprogrammet (the restaurant, catering and food programme)
- samhällsvetenskapsprogrammet (the social science programme)
- teknikprogrammet (the technology programme)
- VVS- och fastighetsprogrammet (heating, ventilation, and sanitation engineering and property programme)
- vård- och omsorgsprogrammet (the health care programme)
Tok Pisin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]program
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish پروغرام (program), from French programme.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]program (definite accusative programı, plural programlar)
- program
- (programming) computer program
- Synonym: bilgisayar programı
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]programming
References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “program”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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- cs:Programming
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/ram
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- id:Computing
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔɡram
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- tr:Programming