Sekirov Dictionary

computer

UK /kəmˈpjuː.tə/US /kəmˈpju.tɚ/

noun 3
verb 3
forms 3

noun3

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an electronic machine that follows a program to store information and do calculations with it, such as the one many people use at home for writing and the internet
- I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
- As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.
•
(historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
- I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten. — 1613
(historical) A male computer.

verb3

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(nonstandard, rare) To use a computer.
- Cool he was computering, though. My dad, who is only in his 60's (mom too) thinks he is too busy to get connected to the internet. Oh well. More bandwidth for the rest of us, huh? — 1995
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(nonstandard, rare) To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.
- Our sincere thanks are due to Antje Reuter, Jens Adam and Uwe Horstmann for computering the manuscript and Ralph Phillips and Kirsten Techmer for proof reading it. — 1983
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(nonstandard, rare) To send via computer.
- They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California. — 1988

forms

computered · computering · computers

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