program

«program» in Mova's school dictionary: a set of instructions that tells a computer what to do — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a program, programs); verb (program, programs, programmed, programming)

meaning for a pupil

1) A program is a set of instructions that tells a computer what to do. tree →

2) To program means to write these instructions. tree →

3) In American English, a program is also a show on TV or radio, a plan of activities, or a booklet at a show (British: programme). tree →

sense in the lessons

In computing lessons pupils program robots and games using code; in everyday American life you watch a TV program. Phrases: «computer program», «program a robot», «after-school program», «TV program».

examples

• We wrote a program to make the robot move. tree →
• Can you program the oven to start at six? tree →
• This program helps you learn spelling. tree →
• My favourite TV program is on tonight. tree →
• She joined an after-school art program. tree →
• The program crashed, so I restarted the computer. tree →
• He loves programming games. tree →

note

Spelling: computer program in all countries; British English uses «programme» for TV shows, plans and booklets. Doubling: programmed, programming, programmer.

In the corpora

• AI programs learn patterns from very large numbers of examples, such as sentences or photos.
• Small AI programs hide in everyday things, such as phone cameras that sharpen photos and blur backgrounds.
• "Large language model" means a huge program that has learned the patterns of how words are used.
• When the program is switched off, nothing happens inside it: it does not sleep, rest or dream.
• The same program runs many copies at once, each one answering a different person.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «program» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.