agent
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin agens, present participle of agere (“to drive", lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”)
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
agent (plural agents)
- One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
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- Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. --Dryden.
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- One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
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- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 36
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- An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
- (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
- (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:deputy
Antonyms [edit]
- (grammar): patient
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from the noun "agent"
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
one who exerts power
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one who acts in place of another
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active power or cause
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computing: part of the system that performs action on behalf of a client or server
grammar: performer of the action in a sentence
See also [edit]
External links [edit]
- agent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- agent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams [edit]
Crimean Tatar [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Noun [edit]
agent
Declension [edit]
declension of agent
| nominative | agent |
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| genitive | agentniñ |
| dative | agentke |
| accusative | agentni |
| locative | agentte |
| ablative | agentten |
Derived terms [edit]
References [edit]
- Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
agent m (plural agenten, diminutive agentje)
- a police officer
- an undercover agent
- an agent, a surrogate (one who acts on behalf of another)
Derived terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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audio (file)
Noun [edit]
agent m (plural agents)
Anagrams [edit]
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
agent
- third-person plural future active indicative of agō
Romanian [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
French agent
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [aˈdʒent]
Noun [edit]
agent m (plural agenți; feminine equivalent agentă)
Declension [edit]
declension of agent
Serbo-Croatian [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ǎɡent/
- Hyphenation: a‧gent
Noun [edit]
àgent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀гент)
Declension [edit]
declension of agent
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | agent | agenti |
| genitive | agenta | agenata |
| dative | agentu | agentima |
| accusative | agenta | agente |
| vocative | agente | agenti |
| locative | agentu | agentima |
| instrumental | agentom | agentima |
Swedish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
agent c
- an agent
Declension [edit]
Declension of agent
Related terms [edit]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- agent in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
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