has particulars: news, news program, news show, rerun, chat show, talk show, television program, television show, tv program, tv show, game show, giveaway, serial, series, episode, installment, instalment, sustaining program

programme(n = noun.communication) computer program, computer programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"

is a kind of computer software, package, software, software package, software program, software system

has particulars: anti-virus program, application, application program, applications programme, binary, binary program, loop, malevolent program, patch, assembler, assembly program, checking program, compiler, compiling program, debugger, interface, user interface, interpreter, interpretive program, job control, library program, monitor program, monitoring program, object program, target program, source program, parser, tagger, tagging program, relocatable program, reusable program, web map server, web map service, search engine, self-adapting program, spider, wanderer, spreadsheet, stored program, executive program, supervisor, supervisory program, syntax checker, system program, systems program, systems software, text-matching, translating program, translator, service program, utility, utility program, lisp program, fortran program, c program

has parts: function, procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine, command, instruction, program line, statement

Derived form verb programme₁

programme(n = noun.cognition) program - a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care program"

is a kind of system, system of rules

has particulars: defence policy, defence program, defense policy, defense program, educational program, rehabilitation program, space program, superfund, superfund program, tax policy, tax program, works program

programme(n = noun.cognition) plan, program - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"

is a kind of idea, thought

has particulars: audit program, audit programme, outline, schema, scheme, master plan, blueprint, design, pattern, plan of action, regime, regimen, project, projection, agenda, docket, schedule, pension account, pension plan, retirement account, retirement plan, retirement program, retirement savings account, retirement savings plan, employee savings plan, guideline, road map, stock purchase plan, budget

Derived form verb programme₂

programme(n = noun.act) program - a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation; "the program lasted more than two hours"

is a kind of performance

has particulars: bill

Verb programme has 2 senses

programme(v = verb.creation) program - write a computer program; Array

is one way to create by mental act, create mentally

Derived forms noun programme₄, noun programming₂

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

programme(v = verb.communication) program - arrange a program of or for; "program the 80th birthday party"

is one way to schedule

Derived forms noun programme₆, noun programming₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

programme, n. [L. programma a public proclamation, manifesto, Gr. pro`gramma, fr. progra`fein to write before or in public; pro` before, forth + gra`fein to write; cf. F. programme. See Graphic.].

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch. [1913 Webster]

Programme music (Mus.), descriptive instrumental music which requires an argument or programme to explain the meaning of its several movements.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

programme, n. & v. (US program)
--n.
1 a usu. printed list of a series of events, performers, etc. at a public function etc.
2 a radio or television broadcast.
3 a plan of future events (the programme is dinner and an early night).
4 a course or series of studies, lectures, etc.; a syllabus.
5 (usu. program) a series of coded instructions to control the operation of a computer or other machine.
--v.tr. (programmed, programming; US programed, programing)
1 make a programme or definite plan of.
2 (usu. program) express (a problem) or instruct (a computer) by means of a program.

Idiom

programme music a piece of music intended to tell a story, evoke images, etc.

Derivative

programmable adj. programmability n. programmatic adj. programmatically adv. programmer n.

Etymology

LL programma f. Gk programma -atos f. prographo write publicly (as PRO-(2), grapho write): spelling after F programme

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THESAURUS

programme

abstract, activities, affairs, agenda, arrange, bill of fare, book, broadcast, calendar, concert, curriculum, description, design, events, formulate, lay out, list, listing, map out, menu, organize, outline, performance, plan, prearrange, precis, presentation, proceedings, production, prospectus, protocol, recital, routine, schedule, scheme, set up, show, slate, summary, syllabus, synopsis, telecast, television play

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ROGET THESAURUS

programme

Plan

N plan, scheme, design, project, proposal, proposition, suggestion, resolution, motion, precaution, deep- laid plan, system, organization, germ, sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon, rough cast, rough draft, draught copy, copy, proof, revise, drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation), forecast, program, programme, prospectus, carte du pays, card, bill, protocol, order of the day, list of agenda, bill of fare, base of operations, platform, plank, slate, ticket, role, policy, contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device, pipelaying, stratagem, trick, alternative, loophole, shift, last shift, measure, step, stroke, stroke of policy, master stroke, trump card, court card, cheval de bataille, great gun, coup, coup d'etat, clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke, bright thought, bright idea, intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination, subplot, underplot, counterplot, schemer, schemist, schematist, strategist, machinator, projector, artist, promoter, designer, conspirator, intrigant, planned, strategic, strategical, planning, prepared, in course of preparation, under consideration, on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor.

Prediction

N prediction, announcement, program, programme, premonition, prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration, augury, auguration, ariolation, hariolation, foreboding, aboding, bodement, abodement, omniation, omniousness, auspices, forecast, omen, horoscope, nativity, sooth, soothsaying, fortune telling, crystal gazing, divination, necromancy, astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology, adytum prefiguration, prefigurement, prototype, type, oracle, predicting, predictive, prophetic, fatidic, fatidical, vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, Sibylline, weatherwise, ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural, auspicial, auspicious, prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of, coming events cast their shadows before, dicamus bona verba, there buds the promise of celestial worth, by oracles, Theomancy, by the Bible, Bibliomancy, by ghosts, Psychomancy, by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy, by shadows or manes, Sciomancy, by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy, by the stars at birth, Genethliacs, by meteors, Meteoromancy, by winds, Austromancy, by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy, Haruspicy, Hieromancy, Hieroscopy, by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy, by the entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy, by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy, by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy, by red-hot iron, Sideromancy, by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy, by mice, Myomancy, by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy, by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy, Alectromancy, by fishes, Ophiomancy, by herbs, Botanomancy, by water, Hydromancy, by fountains, Pegomancy, by a wand, Rhabdomancy, by dough of cakes, Crithomancy, by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy, by salt, Halomancy, by dice, Cleromancy, by arrows, Belomancy, by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy, by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy, by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy, by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy, by precious stones, Lithomancy, by pebbles, Pessomancy, by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy, by mirrors, Catoptromancy, by writings in ashes, Tephramancy, by dreams, Oneiromancy, by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy, by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy, by finger rings, Dactylomancy, by numbers, Arithmancy, by drawing lots, Sortilege, by passages in books, Stichomancy, by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy, by the features, Anthroposcopy, by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy, by ventriloquism, Gastromancy, by walking in a circle, Gyromancy, by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy, by currents, Bletonism, by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy.

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