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    PROGRAMMER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who designs and writes and tests computer programsplay

    Synonyms:

    coder; computer programmer; programmer; software engineer

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("programmer" is a kind of...):

    applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

    computer user (a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business)

    Domain category:

    computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "programmer"):

    cracker (a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things)

    hacker (a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm)

    cyber-terrorist; cyberpunk (a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism)

    Derivation:

    program (write a computer program)

    Credits


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