Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Variant of program.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See program.
Wiktionary
- n. A planned sequence of events.
- n. A sheet or booklet that lists a schedule of events.
- n. A presentation that is broadcast on radio or television.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- v. write a computer program
- n. an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- n. a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
- n. (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- n. a radio or television show
- n. a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- n. an integrated course of academic studies
- v. arrange a program of or for
- n. a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
Examples
“By contrast, work at the programme is a highly disciplined team effort which produces a breakthrough in only a small fraction of the complex cases they investigate.”
“Completing the programme is a revival of Ashton's La Valse, his elegant demonic setting of Ravel's titular score, and Winter Dreams, Kenneth MacMillan's concentrated adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters.”
“Top Gear (if you think this programme is about cars, you are just so wrong)”
“His character on the programme is my favourite, with the exception - of course - of Chris Eccleston's 'Claude'.”
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“Leave Boycott Bill alone, I think his programme is the best comedy on T.V., he is a very funny little man.”
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“So we know our programme is also getting out there internationally.”
“This programme is the only treatment and prevention service for victims of child sexual abuse and their families in the York Region.”
“This programme is a way for the federal government to contribute in a refundable way to large and risky development projects while ensuring that the responsibility for investment rests with the private sector.”
“The cornerstone of our programme is a 30 per cent rebate to the people of Ontario in their personal income tax rates.”
“Laval has graduated its first class, and the programme is a very good one indeed.”
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Colours
weird Brittish words
colour, towne, shoppe, traveller, aluminium, favourite, metre, programme, accountancy
vanishedone Having just checked the OED (draft revisions: June 2007 for the verb form, March 2008 for the noun): it's more complicated, with some senses derived from post-classical Latin programma (influenced by German Programm), others from French programme.
The bit you're thinking of is: ' The more common earlier (and predominantly Scottish) form program was retained by Scott, Carlyle, Hamilton, and others, even after the borrowing of senses directly from French in the late 18th cent. and early 19th cent.; it conforms to the usual English representation of Greek -γ�?αμμα, in e.g. ANAGRAM n., CRYPTOGRAM n., DIAGRAM n., TELEGRAM n., etc. The influence of French programme led to the predominance of this spelling in the 19th cent. The forms programme and program have since become established as the standard British and U.S. spellings respectively, with the exception that program is usual everywhere in senses relating to computing.'
Programme in the sense of 'an advance notice describing any formal proceedings' is attested from 1699 ('Programme,..(Terme de College..) a Bill set up to give publick Notice of the Exercise to be performed in the School'); the earliest citation in any sense is from 1633 ('The beginning of his discourse..is like a program affixed on the entrie of a citie'). Apr 1, 2008
frindley Being neither British nor American I am glad to be in a position to opt for program as my preferred spelling.
My recollection (from once delving into the several pages devoted to it in the 20-volume OED) is that the "programme" spelling is relatively new in Britain — one of those examples of a 19th-century adoption of a French-ified spelling in an attempt to appear more refined.
The fake Italianate flautist is another such word. (And what is it that you do to floors?) Mar 31, 2008