operator
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin operatōr, from operor (“work, labour”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: op‧er‧ator
Noun
operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)
- One who operates.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- 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
Related terms
Translations
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
Anagrams
Kurdish
Pronunciation
Noun
- surgeon (doctor who performs surgery)
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /o.peˈraː.tor/, [ɔpɛˈräːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o.peˈra.tor/, [opeˈräːt̪or]
Noun
operātor m (genitive operātōris); third declension
Declension
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
Verb
(deprecated template usage) operātor
- second-person singular future active imperative of operor
- third-person singular future active imperative of operor
References
- “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.
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
opèrātor m (Cyrillic spelling опѐра̄тор)
Declension
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
Noun
operator c
- (mathematics, computing) an operator
Declension
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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