programme

A show broadcast on television or radio.

• What is your favourite television programme?
• We listened to a radio programme about birds.
• The programme starts at eight tonight.

Similar words: show, broadcast

Common phrases: television programme, radio programme, news programme

A planned set of activities or steps for achieving a particular goal.

• She started an exercise programme.
• The council launched a programme to improve housing.
• These training programmes help people find work.

How to use it: programme of something (The school offers a programme of outdoor activities.)

Similar words: plan, course

Common phrases: training programme, exercise programme, education programme

A printed guide listing the performers and parts of a show or event.

• I bought a programme at the theatre.
• The programme lists all the actors.
• She kept the concert programmes as souvenirs.

Similar words: playbill

Common phrases: concert programme, theatre programme, buy a programme

A set of instructions that tells a computer what to do.

• This programme checks your spelling.
• He wrote a programme to sort the data.
• Several programmes were running on her computer.

Similar words: program, application

Common phrases: computer programme, run a programme, install a programme

To write instructions that tell a computer what to do.

• He learned to programme at school.
• She programmed the robot to follow a line.
• Can you programme a computer to recognize voices?

How to use it: programme something to do something (She programmed the computer to check every answer.)

Similar words: program, code

Common phrases: programme a computer, programme a robot