programme something

4. VERB

When you programme a machine or system, you set its controls so that it will work in a particular way.

• Parents can programme the machine not to turn on at certain times.
  

   (AmH) 3. To provide (a machine) with a set of coded working instructions.

5. VERB : usu passive

If a living creature is programmed to behave in a particular way, they are likely to behave in that way because of social or biological factors that they cannot control.

• We are all genetically programmed to develop certain illnesses.
  

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