program

A set of structured activities; a plan of action.

Noun

  1. A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
    • get with the program
    • Our program for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.

    Coordinate Terms: agenda schedule

  2. 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.
  3. A set of principal goals which someone, especially a political party or candidate, supports.
    • the Toronto Sun, a daily tabloid whose programme is roughly that of the American National Enquirer or the British News of the World - 1981 February 14, Alexander Wilson, “The New Right Attacks Childhood Sexuality: A...

    Synonyms: platform

  4. A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
    • Tonight’s program was hosted by Johnny Carson.
  5. A computer program.
    • The program runs on both Linux and Microsoft Windows.
  6. A particular mindset or method of doing things.
    • Ellis: Come on, John, why don’t you get with the program and tell him where the detonators are? - 1988, Die Hard:
  7. A custom tracklist.
    • program playback

Origin

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.

Forms

programs programme

Synonyms

show playbill application computer program

Hyponyms

space program latchkey program subprogram

Derived

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

Verb

  1. 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.
  2. To develop (software) by writing program code.
    • I programmed a small game as a demonstration.
  3. To put together the schedule of an event.
    • Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.
  4. To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
    • We program for special audience groups, too, as shown by our Mexican language program each Sunday morning. - 1956, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 5, page 2586:
  5. To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
    • The lab rat was programmed to press the lever when the bell rang.
    • 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,...

Forms

programs programming programing programmed programed programme

Derived

programmable programmatical programmatically programmer