client program
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈklaɪənt ˈprɒɡræm/
- Specialized
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programa cliente
- To send and receive emails, you need to start a client program on your computer.
Examples
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In addition to overseeing the Center's day-to-day operations, McWilliams has helped to develop many of its client programs, including Health Services, Pet Food Bank, Senior/Disabled Home Delivery, case management, and much more.
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One of these is fairly straightforward: you set up the client program, set up your system, run the right Windows task, and off it goes.
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If you're consistently losing money on a client program, it's obviously a viable reason to say goodbye.
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Interestingly, you can write a REST client program using nothing more than a raw HttpUrlConnection!
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As technical manager of Stress Technology Inc. in Rochester, N.Y., Rieger is responsible for the technical content and value of all STI client programs.
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More and more, people are staying connected on their phones, and they're spending time browsing the web and in web-based email, rather than connected to a client program on their PCs.
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For example, the syntax of HTML and CSS is relatively straightforward, but the semantics require pages and pages of description, none of which can be automatically interpreted by client programs.
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The client program connects to the remote server to retrieve the latest data.
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He installed a new client program to manage his online file storage more efficiently.
Synonyms
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3.9
A computer program that does a task, for example email or a game
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3.0
A computer or program on a network that asks a server for services
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3.8
A program or process that receives and handles messages from another part
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3.2
Computer software that helps you do specific tasks like writing or managing files
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'client' (software or device that requests services) with 'program' (a set of coded instructions): it denotes a program that acts as a client to a server. This noun–noun compounding is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common technical pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings will readily understand it.
Etymology
The term client program comes from the picture of a client (a customer who asks for a service) and a program (a set of instructions). So a client program is software that 'asks' another computer for data or a 'service', which is why we call it that today.