1 (arrange) programar; planear the broadcast was programmed for Sunday la emisión estaba programada para el domingo
the meeting was programmed to start at 7 a week of programmed activities it was all too carefully controlled, organized, programmed even all programmed learning texts have two characteristics in common: they shape learning by reinforcements and they require active responses
3 (Electricity and Electronics) also programar I always get my children to programme the video for me
to programme sth to do sth programar algo para que haga algo
you can programme the oven to turn itself on nature has programmed your bones to slow down their uptake of calcium
to be programmed (to do sth) [+machine, person] estar programado (para hacer algo)
the radiators are programmed to come on at six every morning the device was programmed to explode within a fixed distance of the ground we are all genetically programmed to develop certain illnesses the mother is programmed by nature to risk her life for her young if you make an error, tuck it away in your mind, programming yourself to prevent it from happening again we have been programming ourselves, or have been programmed by our culture, to perceive the world in only one slender way to transform human beings into computerlike, programmed, easily manipulated creatures to be programmed [for] sth although /the young are programmed for survival/, they have to learn a lot for themselves to programme sth [into] sth these behaviour patterns have been programmed into the brain from birth how are behaviour patterns programmed into our genes? evolution is capable of programming very complex behaviour into very limited brain space
