programme

«programme» in Mova's school dictionary: A show on TV or radio — 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 programme, programmes); verb (programme, programmes, programmed, programming); US spelling program

meaning for a pupil

1) A show on TV or radio. tree →

2) A plan of activities: a training programme. tree →

3) A booklet telling you what happens at a play, concert or match. tree →

4) (verb) To plan or set up something, or to make a machine do something automatically. tree →

sense in the lessons

In UK English, programme is a TV show or plan; a computer program is spelled «program» everywhere. In everyday life, programmes at the theatre or football match. Phrases: TV programme, school programme, exercise programme.

examples

• My favourite programme is on at six. tree →
• The school has a reading programme. tree →
• We bought a programme at the football match. tree →
• The play's programme listed all the actors. tree →
• I programmed the oven to switch on. tree →
• The space programme sent people to the Moon. tree →
• The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight. tree →

note

UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ: programme (shows, plans) but «program» for computer code. US and Canada: program for all. Verb past: programmed, programming (double m).

In the corpora

• In the UK the watershed is 9 pm: programmes not suitable for children are not shown on ordinary TV channels before then.
• Zoos swap animals between countries through planned breeding programmes, called EEPs in Europe and SSPs in North America.
• Toad's programme: «SPEECH. . . .
• In 1957 the BBC programme Panorama showed a spoof film of spaghetti growing on trees, and many viewers believed it.
• NASA's Artemis programme aims to return people to the Moon.

Trees and pragmatics

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