program

get with the program

Our program for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.

A set of structured activities; a plan of action.

The program consisted of ads for restaurants and the credits of everyone connected with the play.

A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.

(politics) A set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate.

Tonight’s program was hosted by Johnny Carson.

(broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.

The program runs on both Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Ellis: Come on, John, why don’t you get with the program and tell him where the detonators are?

get with the program
get with the program

(especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.

program playback

programs (plural)
programme (alternative)

→ Malay: program

→ Tok Pisin: program

program

/ˈpɹəʊˌɡɹæm/

/ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/

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.


program

He programmed the DVR to record his favorite show.

(transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.

I programmed a small game as a demonstration.

(transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.

Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.

(transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.

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:

(broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.

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, because she's been programmed that way.

1982 December 18, Andrea Loewenstein, “Soap Author Responds”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:

(transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.

en-verb

program (third-person singular simple present programs, present participle programming or programing, simple past and past participle programmed or programed)

programs (present singular third-person)
programming (participle present)
programing (participle present)
programmed (participle past)
programmed (past)
programed (participle past)
programed (past)
programme (alternative)

programmeer

to enter a program or other instructions into a computer

プログラムを供給する

プログラムをきょうきゅうする

vastleggen

to put together the schedule of an event

програмирам

to cause to automatically behave in a particular way

/ˈpɹəʊˌɡɹæm/

/ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/