different between doer vs operator

English

Etymology

From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English d?ere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?du?.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?du?.??/
• Homophones: dewar, Dewar

Noun

doer (plural doers)

1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 295:

     Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].

   • 2008, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2008:

     In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:doer

   Coordinate term: be-er

Translations

Anagrams

• Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, orde, redo, rode, roed

Afrikaans

Adverb

doer

1. way over there; far away

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese doer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin dol?re, present active infinitive of dole?, from Proto-Italic *dole? (“hurt, cause pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *dolh?éyeti (“divide”), from *delh?- (“cut”). Cognate with Portuguese doer and Spanish doler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?e?]

Verb

doer (first-person singular present doio, first-person singular preterite doín, past participle doído)

1. (intransitive) to ache, hurt; to cause pain
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to take pity

Conjugation

• Note: do- are changed to doi- before back vowels (a, o).

References

• “doer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “doer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “doer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “doer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “doer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• doere, doar

Etymology

From don +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do??r(?)/

Noun

doer (plural doers)

1. doer, agent (someone who does, performs, or executes)
2. offender (criminal who commits a specified crime)
3. (rare) cause, reason

Derived terms

• yvel doer

Descendants

• English: doer

References

• “d??er(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• do

Noun

doer m or n

1. indefinite plural of do

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese doer, from Latin dole?, from Proto-Italic *dole? (“hurt, cause pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *dolh?éyeti (“divide”), from *delh?- (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /du.?e?/, /?dwe?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /do.?e(?)/, [d?ö.?e(?)]
• Hyphenation: do?er

Verb

doer (past participle doído)

1. (intransitive) to hurt (be painful)

2. (transitive, figuratively) to hurt; to pain (cause emotional pain)

3. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of doer
4. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of doer
5. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of doer
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of doer

Conjugation

Derived terms

• de doer

Related terms

Further reading

• “doer” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “doer” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “doer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “doer” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “doer” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “doer” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• deler, deuer (imperative)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?do???r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?d?i?r/

Verb

doer

1. (literary) present subjunctive impersonal of dod
2. (literary) imperative impersonal of dod

Mutation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin operat?r, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???e?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p???e???/
• Hyphenation: op?er?ator

Noun

operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)

1. One who operates.
2. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
3. (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
4. (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
5. (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.

6. A member of a military special operations unit.
7. (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
8. (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
9. (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

References

• operator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• aeroport, aëroport, poor rate

Latin

Etymology

operor +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.pe?ra?.tor/, [?p???ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.pe?ra.tor/, [?p?????t??r]

Noun

oper?tor m (genitive oper?t?ris); third declension

1. worker, operator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Verb

oper?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of operor
2. 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, 1883–1887)
• operator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

• Ultimately from Latin oper?tor (“worker”), probably through English operator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?p?????to??/

Noun

operator ?

1. surgeon

Polish

Etymology

From French opérateur, from Latin oper?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.p??ra.t?r/

Noun

operator m pers (feminine operatorka)

1. machinist, operator
2. (medicine) surgeon

   Synonym: chirurg

3. (cinematography) cameraman, cinematographer
4. (telecommunications) operator (company providing operator services)

Declension

Noun

operator m inan

1. (mathematics) operator
2. (linguistics) operator

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) operatornia
• (adjectives) operatorski, operatorowy

Further reading

• operator in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• operator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op?ra?tor/
• Hyphenation: o?pe?ra?tor

Noun

opèr?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. (mathematics) operator

Declension

Swedish

Noun

operator c

1. (mathematics, computing) an operator

Declension