operator
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin operatōr, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: op‧er‧ator
Noun[edit]
operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)
- One who operates.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
- A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
- (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
- (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
- (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day.
- Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- A member of a military special operations unit.
- (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
- (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
- (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
- In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.
Hyponyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
one who operates
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telecommunications operator
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mathematical operator
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Chinese whispers — see Chinese whispers
the administrator of a channel or network on IRC
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References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /o.peˈraː.tor/, [ɔpɛˈräːt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o.peˈra.tor/, [opeˈräːt̪or]
Noun[edit]
operātor m (genitive operātōris); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | operātor | operātōrēs |
Genitive | operātōris | operātōrum |
Dative | operātōrī | operātōribus |
Accusative | operātōrem | operātōrēs |
Ablative | operātōre | operātōribus |
Vocative | operātor | operātōrēs |
Descendants[edit]
Verb[edit]
operātor
References[edit]
- “operator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- operator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- operator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Northern Kurdish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
operator ?
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French opérateur, from Latin operātor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
operator m pers (feminine operatorka)
- machinist, operator
- (medicine) surgeon
- Synonym: chirurg
- (cinematography) cameraman, cinematographer
- (telecommunications) operator (company providing operator services)
Declension[edit]
Declension of operator
singular | plural | |
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nominative | operator | operatorzy |
genitive | operatora | operatorów |
dative | operatorowi | operatorom |
accusative | operatora | operatorów |
instrumental | operatorem | operatorami |
locative | operatorze | operatorach |
vocative | operatorze | operatorzy |
Noun[edit]
operator m inan
Declension[edit]
Declension of operator
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | operator | operatory |
genitive | operatoru | operatorów |
dative | operatorowi | operatorom |
accusative | operator | operatory |
instrumental | operatorem | operatorami |
locative | operatorze | operatorach |
vocative | operatorze | operatory |
Derived terms[edit]
adjectives
noun
Further reading[edit]
- operator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- operator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French opérateur or Latin operator. Equivalent to opera + -tor.
Adjective[edit]
operator m or n (feminine singular operatoare, masculine plural operatori, feminine and neuter plural operatoare)
Declension[edit]
Declension of operator
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | operator | operatoare | operatori | operatoare | ||
definite | operatorul | operatoarea | operatorii | operatoarele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | operator | operatoare | operatori | operatoare | ||
definite | operatorului | operatoarei | operatorilor | operatoarelor |
Noun[edit]
operator m (plural operatori)
Declension[edit]
Declension of operator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) operator | operatorul | (niște) operatori | operatorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) operator | operatorului | (unor) operatori | operatorilor |
vocative | operatorule | operatorilor |
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
opèrātor m (Cyrillic spelling опѐра̄тор)
Declension[edit]
Declension of operator
singular | plural | |
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nominative | operator | operatori |
genitive | operatora | operatora |
dative | operatoru | operatorima |
accusative | operator | operatore |
vocative | operatore | operatori |
locative | operatoru | operatorima |
instrumental | operatorom | operatorima |
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
operator c
- (mathematics, computing) an operator
Declension[edit]
Declension of operator | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | operator | operatorn | operatorer | operatorerna |
Genitive | operators | operatorns | operatorers | operatorernas |
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