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Definition: PROG |
PROGIntransitive verb1. To prick; to goad; to progue. 2. To steal; to rob; to filch. 3. To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. Noun1. A goal; progue. 2. A vagrant beggar; a tramp. 3. Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. |
Date "PROG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Prog Food (connected with prod, and perhaps prov [ender]). Burke says, "You are the lion, and I have been endeavouring to prog [procure food] for you." "So saying, with a smile she left the rogue To weave more lines of death, and plan for prog." Dr. Wolcot: Spider and Fly. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | PROG. Provision. Rum prog; choice provision. To prog; to be on the hunt for provision: called in the military term to forage. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PROG | English | Program | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PROG |
| English words defined with "PROG": Progged, Progging, Progue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PROG": 9PAC ♦ Bird-Meertens Formalism ♦ Cigale, command line option, Connection Machine LISP ♦ Extended Concurrent Prolog ♦ HCLP, HiLog ♦ Kernel Parlog ♦ Mini-ML, Modular Prolog, M-Prolog ♦ PHOCUS, PML, Portable Standard Lisp, P-Prolog, P-TAC ♦ Qlambda ♦ REGTRAL ♦ Standard ML of New Jersey ♦ Tcode, TEMPLOG. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PROG": Progue. (references) |
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![]() | Dr. Morgan Wells, former NOAA Dive Prog. Dir., Jim Miller and Jean Jaubert, a French biologist from the Laboratory of General Biology, Nice, France. (r-l). Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ![]() | Cliff Newell (lft), former NOAA Dive Prog. Dir. & German diver during HELGOLAND. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant lunch wagon. At the left a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line. War prog. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "PROG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.61% of the time. "PROG" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.61% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Unclassified Items | 17.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PROG": prog-rock, prog-thrash. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PROG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | program (agenda, plan, platform, program, programme, schedule, software), emision (broadcast, broadcasting, emission, program, programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | надзирател на дисциплината, проктор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | programme (program, programme, project), émission (programme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επαιτώ (beg, cadge, mump, panhandle), επαίτησ (beggar, mendicant, mumper, panhandler), τροφέσ (viands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyetemi fegyelmi felügyelõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogpray provisões (cache, commons, munition, provender, viands, victual), farnel, comida (board, cheer, dietary, eating, fare, food, meal, peck, scoff, tuck, tucker). (various references) halealã (chow, chuck, eats, grub, wolfing). (various references) еда (chow, eats, fare, fast food, food, grub, knife and fork, meal, meat, potluck, repast), пища (aliment, diet, eating, eats, fare, food, foodstuff, grub, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pabulums, provender, victuals). (various references) službenik koji pazi na red, hrana (aliment, chow, cuisine, eatables, fare, food, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, pabulum, provender, tommy, trencher, viands, victual, victuals). (various references) program (card, declaration of policy, platform, play-bill, program, programme, programs, schedule, scorecard, statement of policy). (various references) yiyecek (aliment, chow, comestibles, eatables, fare, food, forage, grub, keep, nurture, provender, scran, tack, tuck, victual), disiplini sağlamak (Proctor), disiplin görevlisi (Proctor), dava vekili (attorney, barrister, Barrister-at-law, counsel, counsellor-at-law, counselor-at-law, general practitioner, legal practitioner, pleader, Proctor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PROG": progenies, progenitor, progenitors, progeny, progeria, progerias, progestational, progesterone, progesterones, progestin, progestins, progestogen, progestogenic, progestogens, progged, progger, proggers, progging, proglottid, proglottides, proglottids, proglottis, prognathism, prognathisms, prognathous, prognose, prognosed, prognoses, prognosing, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticate, prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticating, prognostication, prognostications, prognosticative, prognosticator, prognosticators, prognostics, prograde, program, programed, programer, programers, programing, programings, programmabilities, programmability, programmable. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PROG": antiprogressive, counterprogramming, counterprogrammings, deprogram, deprogramed, deprograming, deprogrammed, deprogrammer, deprogrammers, deprogramming, deprograms, microprogram, microprogramming, microprogrammings, microprograms, misprogram, misprogramed, misprograming, misprogrammed, misprogramming, misprograms, multiprogramming, multiprogrammings, nonprogram, nonprogrammer, nonprogrammers, nonprograms, nonprogressive, nonprogressives, overprogram, overprogramed, overprograming, overprogrammed, overprogramming, overprograms, philoprogenitive, philoprogenitiveness, philoprogenitivenesses, polyphiloprogenitive, preprogram, preprogramed, preprograming, preprogrammed, preprogramming, preprograms, reprogram, reprogramed, reprograming, reprogrammable, reprogrammed, reprogramming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gorp. | |
| Words within the letters "g-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: gor, pro. | |
-2 letters: go, op, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: gorps, grope, group, pargo, pirog, porgy, progs, prong. | |
+2 letters: gopher, groped, groper, gropes, groups, pargos, pirogi, pogrom, poring, proleg, prolog, prongs, ragtop, roping, upgrow. | |
+3 letters: goopier, gophers, gosport, gropers, groping, grouped, grouper, groupie, grownup, gryphon, gumdrop, ingroup, paragon, pergola, perigon, pierogi, pignora, pirogen, piroghi, pirogue, pledgor, podagra, podgier, pogroms, porgies, portage, porting, pouring, presong, probang, probing, prodigy, progeny, progged, progger, program, prolegs, prologs, prolong, pronged, prosing, protege, proving, prurigo, pyrogen, ragtops, regroup, romping, rouping, serpigo, sponger, sporing, upgrown, upgrows. | |
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