SOFTWARE


Meaning of SOFTWARE in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ computer , PC

▪ application

▪ accounting , blogging , design , editing , educational , enterprise , management , social , etc.

▪ character-recognition , handwriting-recognition

▪ face-recognition , facial-recognition

▪ speech-recognition , voice-recognition

Voice-recognition ~ takes your speech and turns it into text.

▪ antivirus , filtering , security

▪ proprietary

Sony's proprietary PC ~

▪ free , open-source

We use only open-source ~.

▪ latest

▪ pirated

He was arrested for selling pirated ~.

… OF SOFTWARE

▪ piece

an exciting piece of design ~

VERB + SOFTWARE

▪ run , use

My PC isn't powerful enough to run that ~.

▪ create , design , develop , make , write

▪ download , install

▪ buy , sell

▪ update

I updated my antivirus ~ last night.

SOFTWARE + VERB

▪ run

The ~ will run on most PCs.

SOFTWARE + NOUN

▪ application , applications , package , product , program , system , tool

▪ development , engineering

▪ developer , engineer

▪ company , firm , house , maker

▪ giant

Microsoft, the ~ giant

▪ business , industry

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