Definitions for operator

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operator op·er·a·tor

Spelling: [op-uh-rey-ter]

IPA: /ˈɒp əˌreɪ tər/

Operator is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in operator (aeooprrt).

Definitions for operator

noun

1. a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like:
2. a person who operates a telephone switchboard, especially for a telephone company.
3. a person who manages a working or industrial establishment, enterprise, or system:
4. a person who trades in securities, especially speculatively or on a large scale.
5. a person who performs a surgical operation; a surgeon.
6. Mathematics. a symbol for expressing a mathematical operation. a function, especially one transforming a function, set, etc., into another:
7. Informal. a person who accomplishes his or her purposes by devious means; faker; fraud. a person who is adroit at overcoming, avoiding, or evading difficulties, regulations, or restrictions. a person who is extremely successful with or smoothly persuasive to members of the opposite sex.
8. Genetics. a segment of DNA that interacts with a regulatory molecule, preventing transcription of the adjacent region.

Origin of operator

1590-1600; Late Latin, equivalent to operā(rī) to work, effect (see operate) + Latin -tor -tor

Examples for operator

This includes the total weight of the machine and equipment, and also the operator.

This apparatus is intended to carry only one person (the operator).

Unsure of what to do, the operator asked a superior what the correct move would be.

The operator offered him the hospitality of the private room, but this he declined.

In 1881, along came Bailey, operator of another circus, and two circuses joined to give rise to the first three-ring spectacle.

Bleriot—(Drexel, operator)—exactly the same as Moissant's machine.

Wright approved one of the wells after the operator agreed to bring it into compliance, according to the letter.

SGR-A1 scans autonomously, and once it detects suspected intruders alerts the operator.

Add the weight of the operator to the weight of the complete machine.

Teague replied: “I have to allow an operator or plugger a way to appeal when he believes our requirements are unreasonable.”