单词 | program |
释义 | noun | verb programprogram1 /ˈproʊgræm, -grəm/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 1PLAN a series of actions which are designed to achieve something important, especially actions that are organized by a government or large organization: Should a trip to Mars be the focus of the U.S. space program?a program to do something The tax funds government programs to retrain workers.program of The group supports a program of universal health care.► see thesaurus at plan12TELEVISION/RADIO a show or performance on television or radio, especially one that is played regularly: She stars in a popular television program.program about We watched an interesting program about whales.3COMPUTER computers a set of instructions given to a computer to make it do a particular job: The computer comes with a word processing program. He started writing computer programs as a teenager.4EDUCATION a set of classes, activities, etc. which have a specific purpose: The college has a good nursing program. He applied for the company’s management training program. The educational programs have been effective in combating the disease.5PLAY/PERFORMANCE eng. lang. arts a printed description of what will happen at a play, concert, etc. and which says who the performers are: Check the program and see if there’s an intermission.6LIST OF ACTIVITIES/EVENTS a series of planned activities or events, or a list showing what order they will happen in SYN schedule: program of The orchestra will present a program of Mozart and Schubert.7MACHINE a series of actions done in a particular order by a machine, for example a washing machine8get with the program spoken used to tell someone to pay attention to what needs to be done, and to do it[Origin: 1600–1700 French programme, from Greek, from prographein to write before] noun | verb programprogram2 verb (programmed, programming) 1[transitive] to set a machine to operate in a particular way: program something to do something I’ve programmed the TV to record the 9 o’clock movie.2[intransitive, transitive] computers to write a set of instructions for a computer or give a computer instructions, which it uses to perform a particular operation: program something to do something They’re trying to program computers to produce and understand speech. Hal spends most of his time programming.3[transitive usually passive] to do something without thinking about it, because of genes or because of social influences: program somebody to do something The birds are programmed to build their nests in the same way.4to arrange for something to happen as part of a series of planned events: The orchestra programs very little modern music. → see also programmer |
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