different between program vs niladic

English

Alternative forms

• programme (see usage notes)

Etymology

From French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from ???????? (prográph?, “I set forth as a public notice”), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ????? (gráph?, “I write”). Doublet of programma.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?????æm/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: pr??gr?m', IPA^(key): /?p?o????æm/
• (Southern American English) enPR: pr??gr?m, IPA^(key): /?p?o????m/
• Hyphenation: pro?gram

Noun

program (plural programs)

1. A set of structured activities.

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

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

4. (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.

5. (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
   • 1988, Die Hard:

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

Usage notes

• Usage of program and programme:
  • US: program is the only spelling normally used.
  • UK: programme is used in all cases except for computer code, in which case program is generally used. Older sources may use programme for computer code.
  • Canada: both program and programme are used, but program is more common.
  • Australia: program is endorsed by the Macquarie Dictionary and is frequently used in both formal and informal settings.
  • New Zealand: programme is favoured by New Zealand dictionaries, and is endorsed by government usage; program is rarely seen outside the computing meaning.

Synonyms

• (broadcast) show
• (leaflet) playbill (for a play)
• (software application) application, computer program

Hyponyms

• space program
• subprogram

Related terms

Translations

Verb

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

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

   I programmed a small game as a demonstration.

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

   Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.

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

   The lab rat was programmed to press the lever when the bell rang.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• program in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• program in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pro?ram]

Noun

program m

1. program (set of activities)
2. program (for theater or TV)
3. program (computing)
4. agenda (of a meeting)

Declension

Derived terms

• podprogram

Further reading

• program in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• program in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).

Noun

program m (plural programs)

1. program

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Programm or English program, from Ancient Greek ????????? (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pro?r?m]
• Hyphenation: prog?ram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

program (plural programok)

1. program (set of activities)
2. (computing) program
3. (politics) platform

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• program in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch program, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”). Doublet of programa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pr??.ram]
• Hyphenation: prog?ram

Noun

program (first-person possessive programku, second-person possessive programmu, third-person possessive programnya)

1. program, programme
   1. a set of structured activities.
   2. (computing) a software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “program” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Noun

program m (plural programs)

1. programme
2. manifesto

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

program n (definite singular programmet, indefinite plural program or programmer, definite plural programma or programmene)

1. a programme (UK) or program (US)
2. (computing) program
3. schedule

Derived terms

References

• “program” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

program n (definite singular programmet, indefinite plural program, definite plural programma)

1. program(me)
2. (computing) program

Derived terms

References

• “program” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?.?ram/

Noun

program m inan

1. program (structured set of activities)
2. program (broadcasted show)
3. program (software)

Declension

Further reading

• program in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French programme

Noun

program n (plural programe)

1. program

Declension

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

prògram m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. program (set of activities)
2. program (for theater or TV)
3. program (computing)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr??ram/

Noun

program m (genitive singular programu, nominative plural programy, genitive plural programov, declension pattern of dub)

1. program (set of structured activities)
2. program (computer program)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• program in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (prógramma).

Noun

program n

1. a program (a set of structured activities)
2. a program (a leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity)
3. a program (a performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television)
4. (computing) a software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task
5. a program on a washing machine; a cycle

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English program.

Noun

program

1. program

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French programme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o???am/
• Hyphenation: p?og?ram

Noun

program (definite accusative program?, plural programlar)

1. program
2. (programming) computer program

   Synonym: bilgisayar program?

Declension

Derived terms

English

Etymology

nil +? -adic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd?k

Adjective

niladic

1. (computing) Of an operator or function in a program, having no arguments.

Synonyms

• nullary

See also

• dyadic
• monadic
• triadic

Anagrams

• indical