Dictionary

computerise en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Latin computārelbor. French computerbor. English compute Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English computer English -ise English computerise From computer + -ise.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, nonstandard) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of computerize.
   alt of computerize
   • The template was repiloted by the same four surgeons and recovery ward nurses to see if opinions and the usability of the template had improved, with the eventual aim of computerising the template. 2015 August 6, M. Sayma et al., “From Inpatient Notes to Outpatient Followup: Enhancing the Rhinology Service in a Tertiary Centre through Student Led Projects”, in International Journal of Otolaryngology, volume 2015, →DOI:
   • More recently, in the past five years, there has been the effort to collect, computerise, and analyse a million-word corpus of both written and spoken Singapore English. 1999, National University of Singapore, Singapore Studies: Critical Surveys of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol II, page 78
   • The "Becoming Real" remix of the track adds dubby space and bleeps to the mix and computerises the draggy beat and robotises the vocals – Veronica appears to be chanting "black lesbian" over and over, which is cool. 2010 June 15, Paul Lester, “Teeth (No 808)”, in The Guardian:
   • More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded. 2019 April 11, Marcel Theroux, “Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review – intelligent mischief”, in The Guardian:
   • This column is going to be about the NHS computer system – you know, that attempt to computerise everyone's medical records, which has cost such a lot of money and doesn't work. 2011 December 10, David Mitchell, “I want to talk to you about the NHS. And its IT system. Wait, come back…”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Deriveds

computerisable