preprogram

verb

Etymology

From pre- + program.

  1. derived from πρόγραμμα
  2. derived from programma
  3. borrowed from programme
  4. prefixed as preprogram — “pre + program

Definitions

  1. To program something in advance.

  2. To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.

    • hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preprogram. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA