I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer program (= a set of instructions stored inside a computer )
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At school, we’re learning how to write simple computer programs.
a software/program designer (= for computer programs )
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Software designers are working on a new operating system.
drop a scheme/program etc
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Some banks have dropped their student loan scheme.
entitlement program
outreach program/service/center etc
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outreach centers for drug addicts
program a computer (= give it instructions so that it will do a particular job )
programmed learning
recovery program
software/a program runs on a computer
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You’ll need the appropriate software running on your computer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
educational
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The authors have obviously taken note of the thousands of users of the first release to bring you this wonderful educational program .
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Many individuals also attend training and educational programs sponsored by industry associations, often in collaboration with postsecondary institutions.
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The culprit: an educational program he had installed for his 3-year-old daughter.
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To the extent that educational programs purport to teach social knowledge, legitimate opportunities for social interaction must be provided.
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In the early 1950s Highlander work shifted to make educational programs on the civil rights issue its major priority.
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Many of the resources went into day-care centers, educational programs , and the training and employment of police-community aides.
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Sophisticated graphics and multimedia software for games and educational programs dictate that consumer machines have plenty of muscle.
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Special educational programs are scheduled for youngsters.
federal
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For his part, Perry is pressing the Agriculture Department in Washington to show more generosity in federal crop-insurance programs .
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To match federal program cuts, that proportion would have to dramatically increase.
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Congress is poised to block-grant to the states huge chunks of federal programs .
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The overall cutback in the funding of federal urban programs would require cities to look to state governments for aid.
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It is one of the few federal programs from which large budget savings are potentially available.
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The projected increases come largely because farmers will no longer have to idle acres in order to participate in federal programs .
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The remaining 1. 9 percent would continue to be paid into the federal disability insurance program .
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Some problems of the federal health programs were self-inflicted, the witnesses indicated.
social
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Clinton said Congress was cutting social programs too deeply to pay for the tax cuts.
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She said social programs of the 1960s have gotten a bad rap in the 1990s.
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He said an agreement had been struck whereby Freeport would provide 1 percent of annual revenues for social development programs .
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Its social programs can fail to work, its businesses can fail to produce, its laws can become unenforceable.
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Some social aid programs have grown even more.
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The serious cutting will occur in the social welfare programs , which are pretty much all that remain.
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It also provides a network of schools, medical clinics and other social programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
special
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Adding data does not require special programs to be written.
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You know, unlike those special programs we have just for talented and gifted kids.
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However, the riding test can be waived if you successfully complete a special training program .
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Continental Freedom and Global Passports are special Continental programs for seniors who fly frequently.
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Overall, the school budget is $ 29. 1 billion, including special program funding and other targeted funds.
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Can you tell me if there are any special programs to help my gut reach its full potential?
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This semantic distinction is beside the point; the special admissions program is undeniably a classification based on race and ethnic back-ground.
■ NOUN
computer
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Whether the teacher feels that this particular lesson was enhanced by the use of a computer program . 12.
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A computer program that attempts to have a robot duplicate your efforts would get very complex.
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It is possible that the company writing the computer program was negligent in its testing of the program.
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Dawkins works out in some detail a computer program which mirrors this computer simulation of the development of the eye.
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A literal copy of a computer program infringes copyright if made without the consent of the copyright owner.
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Very simply, these so-called models are computer programs that analyze a lot of meteorological information fed into them.
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We discuss the computer program in rather anthropomorphic terms, referring successively to the talents personality and style of the computer program.
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Sketchpad did not frel like a computer program , at least none that had ever been thought of as such.
education
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Human rights education programs aim to foster respect for other people, tolerance, fairness and solidarity.
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Special education programs are having a tremendous impact on the way schools, educators, and library media programs do their work.
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The Alliance uses the money to fund ongoing health, safety and environmental education programs for the oil field service industry.
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The government uses them to plan food and nutrition education programs .
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A portion of each sale goes to the Wright foundation, which funds conservation and education programs .
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Update and refine your skills, preferably in adult education programs at a local college.
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The university is known for many things, he said, most notably its teacher education programs .
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Your education programs should be designed to accommodate different needs within your workforce.
software
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It has also been tested with over 2100 software programs and has proved to be compatible.
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Some count how many software programs are sold.
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The software programs for microcomputers demand visual concentration and sometimes tracking and scanning skills.
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A growing variety of software programs are available to scramble your data so that only you can view it.
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Third Party Software Leading molecular scientists worldwide have developed effective specialised software programs noted for advancing science.
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The computer runs a backup software program for launching and landing the shuttle.
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PageMaker-the software program from Aldus Corporation that everyone associates with desktop publishing due to its immense success on the Apple Macintosh.
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For most users, this requires a software program known as a telnet client.
■ VERB
run
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Whenever you run a program it switches to the output screen to show you what the program has produced.
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It does not even need to be forbidden; the people who run these programs are not angry.
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At first, I just ran the Equalizer program on a desktop computer.
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This runs the batch file which will put you in the correct subdirectory and run the program .
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The computer runs a backup software program for launching and landing the shuttle.
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When you run the program it will do something unexpected, usually without your knowledge.
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Deborah runs a job-training program at Republic Steel, to place steelworkers in new jobs.
start
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People have found ways to escape ill-fitting jobs, start training programs , or enter graduate school.
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Sedentary men, particularly those over 40, should not start a running program without a physical exam, he said.
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The year after Sara started the medical program , her tumors regressed.
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Advocating civil rights and open housing and starting a university tutorial program for poor, inner-city Baltimore children, for starters.
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He did, and so we started on a psychotherapy program .
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Jack Welch started the program by calling for a search for companies worth emulating.
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The man with whom he joined to start the program is head teacher.
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So he changed his swing, changed his exercise routine and started a stretching program .
use
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You can use a terminal program for direct connection to another user.
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This recipe was used for a program and I hope Mrs Mills enjoys it as much as the residents did.
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Each car behaves differently so you never get tired of using the program .
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Intuit, meanwhile, has acknowledged using the tracking programs to target ads.
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This function allows proprietary formats to be used between consenting programs in private, without the need for standardization of those formats.
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Option 8 is used to leave the program and must be selected to ensure that all the data is safely stored.
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A cracker can also eavesdrop using wiretapping, radio, or auxiliary ports on computers, which are used by network programs .
write
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Our version of occam thus contains only the essential core needed to write simple programs .
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I think it is possible to make zero defects in production software, say if you are writing yet another database program .
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The product is aimed at engineers and scientists who can build software modules called virtual instruments instead of writing cryptic text-based programs .
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And if Apple falls apart, software developers could get even more skittish about sinking money into writing programs for Macs.
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The vexed question has always been: Who should write the programs which control these machines?
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For instance, in computer science one learns how to write programs that can perform certain tasks.
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Other programs like word processors, produce data files such as the letters you write .
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It was his job to convince software developers to write programs for Macintosh.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be programmed
get with the program
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"ER" is the most popular program on TV.
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a circus program
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a government program to feed the poor
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Brian was able to get into a good nursing program .
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Square dancing is on tonight's program at the rec center.
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the company's management training program
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the U.S. space program
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For programmers to write Windows-based programs, they need to know about changes in the system well in advance.
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In other words, what are the results of your program ?
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The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program .
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This only occurs when programs are written to take advantage of the co-processor.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
computer
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More important was the software - how should a parallel computer be programmed ?
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The computer programmed graded distribution in which the detail is random.
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For a computer to be easily programmed , it must be obvious when a mistake has been made.
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The computer is programmed with the best available knowledge of how atmospheric conditions cause weather systems.
■ VERB
learn
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Why should you learn to program in this day and age?
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She later learned to program in the Unix operating system that is the basis for eVote.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get with the program
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hal spends most of his time programming.
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The computers have been programmed to automatically save whatever you're working on.
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The orchestra programs very little music by living composers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His most striking proposition to the lay reader is that human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
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It would also run on the Java programming language.
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Java is a programming language that Sun unveiled last year.
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Perhaps the most important change in Netscape Version 2 is its ability to run programs written in the Java programming language.