Programmed Programme Final Section Road Completion Month Events

• the final section of road is programmed for completion next month.
• human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
• she programmed the central heating to come on at eight.
• several evening events have been programmed.

programme

1. to plan for something to happen, especially as part of a series of planned events
• The final section of road is programmed for completion next month.
2. to make a person, an animal, etc. behave in a particular way, so that it happens automatically
• Human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
3. to give a machine instructions to do a particular task
• She programmed the central heating to come on at eight.

Extra Examples

• Several evening events have been programmed.
• The exhibition was originally programmed to close last month.
• The final section of road is programmed for completion next year.
• The leak was discovered during programmed maintenance work.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they programme
• he / she / it programmes
• past simple programmed
• past participle programmed
• -ing form programming

Word Origin

• early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘written notice’): via late Latin from Greek programma, from prographein ‘write publicly’, from pro ‘before’ + graphein ‘write’.