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n. (cognition) | 1. plan, program, programme | 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" |
| ~ idea, thought | the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about.; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" |
| ~ audit program, audit programme | a listing of audit procedures to be performed in completing an audit. |
| ~ schema, outline, scheme | a schematic or preliminary plan. |
| ~ master plan | a long-term outline of a project or government function.; "the zoning board adopted a master plan for the new development" |
| ~ blueprint, design, pattern | something intended as a guide for making something else.; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" |
| ~ plan of action | a plan for actively doing something. |
| ~ regimen, regime | (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet). |
| ~ project, projection | a planned undertaking. |
| ~ agenda, schedule, docket | a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. |
| ~ pension account, pension plan, retirement account, retirement plan, retirement program, retirement savings account, retirement savings plan | a plan for setting aside money to be spent after retirement. |
| ~ employee savings plan | a plan that allows employees to contribute to an investment pool managed the employer. |
| ~ road map, guideline | a detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action.; "the president said he had a road map for normalizing relations with Vietnam" |
| ~ stock purchase plan | an organized plan for employees of a company to buy shares of its stock. |
| ~ budget | a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them.; "the president submitted the annual budget to Congress" |
n. (cognition) | 2. program, programme | 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" |
| ~ system of rules, system | a complex of methods or rules governing behavior.; "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender" |
| ~ defence policy, defence program, defense policy, defense program | a program for defending a country against its enemies. |
| ~ educational program | a program for providing education. |
| ~ rehabilitation program | a program for restoring someone to good health. |
| ~ space program | a technological program intended to explore outer space. |
| ~ superfund, superfund program | the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.; "some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund" |
| ~ tax policy, tax program | a program for setting taxes. |
| ~ works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds. |
n. (communication) | 3. broadcast, program, programme | a radio or television show.; "did you see his program last night?" |
| ~ show | a social event involving a public performance or entertainment.; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway" |
| ~ news program, news show, news | a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary.; "we watch the 7 o'clock news every night" |
| ~ rerun | a program that is broadcast again.; "she likes to watch `I love Lucy' reruns" |
| ~ chat show, talk show | a program during which well-known people discuss a topic or answer questions telephoned in by the audience.; "in England they call a talk show a chat show" |
| ~ television program, television show, tv program, tv show | a program broadcast by television. |
| ~ game show, giveaway | a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards. |
| ~ serial, series | a serialized set of programs.; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series" |
| ~ instalment, installment, episode | a part of a broadcast serial. |
| ~ sustaining program | a program without a commercial sponsor. |
n. (communication) | 4. platform, political platform, political program, program | a document stating the aims and principles of a political party.; "their candidate simply ignored the party platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no positive program" |
| ~ document, papers, written document | writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature). |
| ~ plank | an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party. |
n. (communication) | 5. program, programme | an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event.; "you can't tell the players without a program" |
| ~ promulgation, announcement | a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen.; "the announcement appeared in the local newspaper"; "the promulgation was written in English" |
| ~ playbill | a theatrical program.; "he couldn't find her name on the playbill" |
| ~ racecard | a program for a race meeting; lists the races and the names of the horses. |
n. (communication) | 6. course of study, curriculum, program, programme, syllabus | an integrated course of academic studies.; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" |
| ~ course of lectures | a series of lectures dealing with a subject. |
| ~ info, information | a message received and understood. |
| ~ crash course, crash program, crash programme | a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency).; "he took a crash course in Italian on his way to Italy"; "his first job was a crash course in survival and in learning how to get along with people"; "a crash programme is needed to create new jobs" |
| ~ reading program | a program designed to teach literacy skills. |
| ~ degree program | a course of study leading to an academic degree. |
n. (communication) | 7. computer program, computer programme, program, programme | (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute.; "the program required several hundred lines of code" |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ computer software, software, software package, software program, software system, package | (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory.; "the market for software is expected to expand" |
| ~ anti-virus program | a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread. |
| ~ application program, applications programme, application | a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task.; "he has tried several different word processing applications" |
| ~ binary program, binary | a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system.; "the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems" |
| ~ loop | a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied. |
| ~ malevolent program | a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects. |
| ~ patch | a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program. |
| ~ assembler, assembly program | a program to convert assembly language into machine language. |
| ~ checking program | a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errors. |
| ~ compiling program, compiler | (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program. |
| ~ debugger | a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors. |
| ~ user interface, interface | (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system. |
| ~ interpretive program, interpreter | (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time. |
| ~ job control | a program that is called to prepare each job to be run. |
| ~ library program | a program in a program library. |
| ~ monitor program, monitoring program | a program that observes and regulates and controls or verifies the operations of a data-processing system. |
| ~ object program, target program | a fully compiled or assembled program ready to be loaded into the computer. |
| ~ source program | a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language. |
| ~ parser | a computer program that divides code up into functional components.; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code" |
| ~ tagging program, tagger | a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter. |
| ~ relocatable program | a program that can be located in different parts of memory at different times. |
| ~ reusable program | a program that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly. |
| ~ web map server, web map service | a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information. |
| ~ search engine | a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet). |
| ~ self-adapting program | a program that can change its performance in response to its environment. |
| ~ spider, wanderer | a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine. |
| ~ spreadsheet | a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen. |
| ~ stored program | a program that is stored in the memory of the computer that executes it. |
| ~ executive program, supervisory program, supervisor | a program that controls the execution of other programs. |
| ~ syntax checker | a program to check natural language syntax. |
| ~ system program, systems program, systems software | a program (as an operating system or compiler or utility program) that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer. |
| ~ text-matching | a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text.; "Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text" |
| ~ translating program, translator | a program that translates one programming language into another. |
| ~ service program, utility program, utility | (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer.; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users" |
| ~ subprogram, subroutine, procedure, routine, function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program. |
| ~ program line, instruction, statement, command | (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program. |
| ~ lisp program | a program written in LISP. |
| ~ fortran program | a program written in FORTRAN. |
| ~ c program | a program written in C. |
n. (act) | 8. program, programme | a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation.; "the program lasted more than two hours" |
| ~ performance | the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment.; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto" |
| ~ bill | the entertainment offered at a public presentation. |
v. (communication) | 9. program, programme | arrange a program of or for.; "program the 80th birthday party" |
| ~ schedule | make a schedule; plan the time and place for events.; "I scheduled an exam for this afternoon" |
v. (creation) | 10. program, programme | write a computer program. |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ hack on, hack | fix a computer program piecemeal until it works.; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" |
| ~ create by mental act, create mentally | create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands. |
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