computer

1. 1

   A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Inte

   • Meronyms: processor, microprocessor, CPU
   • I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.
2. 2

   A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.historical

   • 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.
   • By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.
3. 3

   A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.; A male computer.historical

   • Coordinate term: (female) computress

syn. 'puter · box · calculator · computer · data processing machine · electronic brain · electronic computer · machine · number cruncher · thinking machine

1. 1

   To use a computer.intransitivenonstandardrare

   • 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?
   • I'm constantly computering, schlepping, stressing, and hauling ass like the rest of us. We are New Yorkers.
2. 2

   To send via computer.nonstandardraretransitive

   • They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.
3. 3

   To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.nonstandardraretransitive

   • 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.
   • It is also a pleasure to recommend the skill of Irit Markan who carried out the work of 'computering' the text, and of Ivor Ludlam who bore the labour of proof reading—both the English and the Greek.