1. programmed - Adjective
2. programmed - Verb
Derived from program
simple past and past participle of program
simple past and past participle of programme
programmed (not comparable)
(Quakerism) having a minister or pastor who conducts religious services.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. John Searle
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish. Daniel Radcliffe
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. Germaine Greer
We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Richard Dawkins