Word Finder - computer

definition

A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.

definition

(by restriction) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.

definition

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 Internet, or playing games or media.

synonyms

• 'puter
• box
• calculator
• machine
• processor

A computer can do some tasks better than a person can.

Her phone and computer are monitored.

I haven't been near a computer since before I left.

The computer screen before him was blank, but he didn't notice.

All she had to do was choose the color she wanted to wear-- black for the past several days in silent objection to her presence aboard the ship-- and the ship's computer wove it for her.

Yes, and I ordered a computer for you too.

Any task a computer can do better than a person is, by definition, a task requiring no human creativity or ingenuity.

He programmed the computer to respond in training cycle mode and glanced at the communication link again.

Starting up the computer, he pulled up a word program and typed something.

Idle computer time employed to solve the world's problems.

Frank led me down a long corridor to a large conference room filled with perhaps thirty intent individuals, standing and sitting, some taking notes, others with few buried faces in computer screens.

Imagine when a five-cent computer in your shoe warns you that the way you are walking will lead to spine problems.

The next morning she was at the computer as soon as he left.

If it required those things, the computer couldn't do it.

She hadn't been able to log onto Dusty's computer, because he kept it locked out.

He recognized the building via a computer image Betsy provided.

I went back to my computer to retrieve a phone number, then on to the secure phone line.

Dusty looked up from the computer screen as Toni walked in, staggering under the weight of a massive box.

She began to paw at her computer keyboard, searching.

He spends as much time on the computer as all the others combined.

Everyone knows that has been happening for computer stuff.

Visualization provide an easy-to-use graphical front-end for doctors to analyze images easily without having to navigate around large amounts of computer language.

Wireless Internet was not available at the cabin and our computer had no means for a telephone hook-up.

He logged into the computer and clandestine website, sending Damian an urgent message.

Damian smiled and tossed his head toward his computer, straightening.

What do the Dawkins do on the computer?

Betsy spent hours on the computer, searching for results from our second tip but nothing was reported.

He set it down on the coffee table and returned to the computer.

People with photosensitive epilepsy should consider limiting the time they spend watching TV or computer monitors.

The memory for that computer cost me $40 per MB, just under $200.

I was tidying up some details when my computer singled an incoming message, from Merrill Cooms.

With Fred's approval, he dashed up to the old man's room to fire up his computer and do so.

She was in the office working on the computer when Felipa came home.

Your computer mouse is also a popular germ hangout with more than 1,600 GPSI.

You're welcome to look at anything on my computer.

Clad in boxers, the startled Black God looked up from his computer.

For the first time in ages, Dusty was falling asleep at his computer.

The computer blinked off, and the pod slid, stopping finally.

With the proceeds of a recent stock sale, Fred O'Connor had invested in a complete computer system and was off and running.

Then she shuffled around with the computer, giggled, sighed, snorted, yawned and went back to sleep.

He glanced up from his computer when she came into his office.

In fact, he was spending more and more time in his office, working on his computer.

She cleared her desk and turned off the computer.

In 1852 he graduated at Harvard, and became computer to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. He made his name by contributions on mathematical and physical subjects in the Mathematical Monthly.

He kept no notes on his computer about the mysterious meetings.

The Solo is an ultra low power computer - about the size of an A4 ring binder.

Braille typewriter or laptop computer to take notes.

Others carried out the simulation on a computer or a programmable calculator.

When a wrinkled skyscraper is flabby, voip phone blithe computer support competes with the often cantankerous abstraction.

The book also assumes from the outset that the audience is already conversant with computer -based statistical packages.