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preprogram en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English program English preprogram From pre- + program.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To program something in advance.
  2. (transitive) To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.
    • But while Lois getting it that the entire cottage was a no-go area might mean that she was preprogrammed by thousands of years of dragons raising their dragonlets in dens, I wondered if that was all it was. 2007, Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 149:
    • hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
preprograms Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
preprogrammed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
preprogrammed Tense=Past lexicographic
preprogramed Tense=Past rare lexicographic
preprogramed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part rare lexicographic
preprogramming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
preprogramme alternative lexicographic
preprograming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part rare lexicographic

Translations (4)

de vorprogrammieren (program something in advance) · nl voorprogrammeren (program something in advance) · nl voorprogrammeren (predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours) · it preprogrammare (program something in advance)