Program and Sequence

noun

• A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
  • usage: "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"
  • synonyms: plan, programme
• A system of projects or services intended to meet a public need.
  • usage: "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care program"
  • synonyms: programme
• A radio or television show.
  • usage: "did you see his program last night"
  • synonyms: broadcast, programme
• A document stating the aims and principles of a political party.
  • usage: "their candidate simply ignored the party platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no positive program"
  • synonyms: platform, political platform, political program
• An announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event.
  • usage: "you can't tell the players without a program"
  • synonyms: programme
• An integrated course of academic studies.
  • usage: "he was admitted to a new program at the university"
  • synonyms: course of study, programme, curriculum, syllabus
• Computer science. ( a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)
  • usage: "the program required several hundred lines of code"
  • synonyms: programme, computer program, computer programme
• A performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation.
  • usage: "the program lasted more than two hours"
  • synonyms: programme

verb

• Arrange a program of or for.
  • usage: "program the 80th birthday party"
  • synonyms: programme
• Write a computer program.
  • synonyms: programme

Related activities and projects that seek to accomplish a specific objective.

noun

• Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.
  • usage: "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
• A following of one thing after another in time.
  • usage: "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
  • synonyms: chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession
• Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.
  • synonyms: episode
• The action of following in order.
  • usage: "he played the trumps in sequence"
  • synonyms: succession
• Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.

verb

• Arrange in a sequence.
• Determine the order of constituents in.
  • usage: "They sequenced the human genome"

• (n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
• (n.) Simple succession or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
• (n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
• (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
• (n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
• (n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
• (n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
• (n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.