different between doer vs worker

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

From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??.k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?.k?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k?(?)

Noun

worker (plural workers)

1. A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.
2. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
   1. (rare) A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
3. (computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

Synonyms

• (person who performs labor): laborer, labourer

Hyponyms

• (person who performs labor): employee

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• rework