Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The designing, scheduling, or planning of a program, as in broadcasting.
- n. The writing of a computer program.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of program.
- n. broadcasting The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program / programme
- n. brain-washing
- n. computing The act of writing a computer program.
- n. The software that controls a machine, or the logic or expressed in such software; operating instructions
WordNet 3.0
- n. creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something
- n. setting an order and time for planned events
Examples
“I find it humorous that anyone would defend some ribbing of the OS Marketshare "bully", particularly since Easter Eggs in programming is a longstanding tradition.”
“One of the problems that exists in programming is trying to satisfy all tastes.”
“Unfortunately his programming is a shoddy and he ends up destroying the planet instead.”
“Essentially the programming is a compendium of the highlights of the American electronic media.”
“It encourages the network's inertial tendency in programming, which is to treat (and pay) the stars like stars but be ruthless the minute their popularity begins to flag, and not to get locked into a large permanent payroll for any show.”
“This fall, MyTV launched what it calls a programming service.”
“Don’t get me wrong, I think formal training in programming is mandatory for most science professionals.”
“But first it needs support and 3-D programming from a Hollywood studio, which will help convince consumers to spend the big bucks to step up to 3-D.”
“As for Fow News, the vast majority of its programming is talk show based.”
Economics of Hydrogen, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Note that object-oriented programming is based on the idea of hiding and protecting as much information as possible between modules.”
Bundling II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘programming’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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AFET - EU enlargement
absorption capacity, accede to next en..., acceding country, accelerate negoti..., accession criteria, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession process, accession talks, acquis communautaire, acquis screening and 697 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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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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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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REGI - cohesion policy
action, indicative action, fund-specific rules, programming, programme, priority, operation, beneficiary, final recipient, State aid, completed operation, public support and 13 more...
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computer science meets religion
I noticed several religious words end up in computing somehow, but I can only remember two right now.
icon, sprite, avatar, oracle, host, server, halo, programming
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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activity
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Things I adore
words, linguistics, etymology, philosophy, literature, research, poetry, science, cognition, solitude, nihilism, zen and 139 more...
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andreia's Words
expertise, chocolate, aggregation, folksonomy, tagging, scalability, web, productivity, planning, programming, hack, love and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for programming.

GHibbs My adjectival use: 'That would be a computer programming language.' Aug 23, 2011
bilby Me: What's with all the wars?
God: it came with my programming.
Me: Reprogram, Dude-Major!
God: What color are your eyes?
- from a conversation with a chatbot known as iGod. Feb 16, 2009