Crossword clues for operator
operator
- Phone company employee
- User of machinery
- Switchboard worker
- Smooth talker
- Smooth player
- Number cruncher?
- Worker 'standing by'
- What dialing "0" may connect you to
- Sprint figure?
- Shady business man
- Responder to O on the dial
- Person working a switchboard
- Part of B.T.O
- One receiving many calls at work
- One at the switchboard
- Old phone company worker
- Lily's Ernestine, e.g
- Ernestine, in a Lily Tomlin skit
- AT&T employee
- Antiquated telephone company position
- 1972 Jim Croce song
- + or -, to mathematicians
- + or -, in math
- Numbers person?
- Smooth worker
- Wheeler-dealer — telephonist
- Number finder
- One whose working days are numbered?
- Zero personality?
- Person who's a zero?
- (informal) a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
- A speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
- (mathematics) a symbol that represents a function from functions to functions
- Mountebank
- Tomlin's Ernestine
- Tomlin as Ernestine
- O, on a telephone
- Part of B.T.O.
- Lily Tomlin role in "Laugh-In"
- See 37-Down
- Person at the controls
- A ham is one
- Someone to dial
- Work on stage "flipping twaddle" - a plus or a minus?
- Wheeler-dealer’s stage performance? Flipping rubbish!
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Operator \Op"er*a`tor\, n. [L.]
One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
(Surg.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. [Brokers' Cant]
(Math.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
A person who operates a telephone switchboard.
A person who schemes and maneuvers adroitly or deviously to achieve his/her purposes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "one who performs mechanical or surgical operations," agent noun from operate (v.) or from Late Latin operator. Meaning "one who carries on business shrewdly" is from 1828. Specific sense of "one who works a telephone switchboard" (1884) grew out of earlier meaning "one who works a telegraph" (1847).
Wiktionary
n. One who operates.
WordNet
n. (mathematics) a symbol that represents a function from functions to functions; "the integral operator"
an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard" [syn: manipulator]
someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?"
a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties [syn: hustler, wheeler dealer]
a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
Wikipedia
An operator is a mapping from one vector space or module to another. Operators are of critical importance to both linear algebra and functional analysis, and they find application in many other fields of pure and applied mathematics. For example, in classical mechanics, the derivative is used ubiquitously, and in quantum mechanics, observables are represented by hermitian operators. Important properties that various operators may exhibit include linearity, continuity, and boundedness.
In physics, an operator is a function over a space of physical states to another space of physical states. The simplest example of the utility of operators is the study of symmetry (which makes the concept of a group useful in this context). Because of this, they are a very useful tool in classical mechanics. Operators are even more important in quantum mechanics, where they form an intrinsic part of the formulation of the theory.
In genetics, an operator is a segment of DNA to which a transcription factor binds to regulate gene expression. The transcription factor is a repressor, which can bind to the operator to prevent transcription.
The main operator (O2) in the classically defined lac operon is located slightly downstream of the promoter. Two additional operators, O1 and O3 are located at -82 and +412, respectively.
Operator may refer to:
Programming languages typically support a set of operators: constructs which behave generally like functions, but which differ syntactically or semantically from usual functions. Common simple examples include arithmetic (addition with +, comparison with >;) and logical operations (such as AND or &&). More involved examples include assignment (usually = or :=), field access in a record or object (usually .), and the scope resolution operator (often ::). Languages usually define a set of built-in operators, and in some cases allow user-defined operators.
In generative grammar, the technical term operator denotes a type of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency. One often says that the operator "binds a variable".
Operators are often determiners, such as interrogatives ('which', 'who', 'when', etc.), or quantifiers ('every', 'some', 'most', 'no'), but adverbs such as sentential negation ('not') have also been treated as operators. It is also common within generative grammar to hypothesise phonetically empty operators whenever a clause type or construction exhibits symptoms of the presence of an a-bar movement dependency, such as sensitivity to extraction islands.
Operator is an American post-grunge band from Los Angeles, California, United States. The name Operator was used for a solo project created by Johnny Strong, an Actor/Musician/Martial Artist, who has appeared in movies such as Black Hawk Down, (2001) The Fast and the Furious (2001), Get Carter (2000) and The Glimmer Man (1996).
"Operator" is a Motown song recorded by Motown vocalists Mary Wells and Brenda Holloway. The Wells version was the b-side to her top ten hit, " Two Lovers" while Holloway's was issued as a single in 1965.
An operator is a professional designation used in various industries, including broadcasting (in television and radio), computing, power generation and transmission, customer service, physics, and construction. Operators are day-to-day end users of systems, that may or may not be mission-critical, but are typically managed and maintained by technicians or engineers. They might also work on a 24-hour rotating shift schedule.
Operator is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It parses and acts upon a number of microformats, as well as validating them.
Operator lets the user access microformats through a number of methods, all of which are optional: a toolbar, a toolbar button, a status bar icon, a location bar icon, or a sidebar.
It has native support for several microformats:
- adr (adr spec) (postal addresses)
- hCard (contact/ address information)
- hCalendar (events)
- Geo ( geographic coordinates)
- rel-tag
and is extensible, in that users can add new actions for the included microformats, or specify additional microformat recognition.
Operator was written by Mike Kaply of IBM. It forms the basis for Firefox 3's microformats API, allowing native support, but has no direct user interface, due to lack of consensus on the implementation in the GUI.
Operator (A Girl Like Me) is a song by Canadian pop/ rock singer Shiloh. It was released on September 23, 2008 as the debut single off her debut album Picture Imperfect (2009). The song is about staying true to oneself and not becoming superficial.
"Operator (A Girl Like Me)" peaked at number 30 on the Canadian Hot 100, making this her only top 40 hit on that chart. A music video by Aaron A. was made for the single and features a split screen that shows both Shiloh and another girl as they walk down in the same direction. A live version of the song performed at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards was released on iTunes on June 22, 2009. The song was certified Platinum by Music Canada, denoting sales of over 80,000 units in that country.
"Operator" is a 1984 # 1 R&B/dance single by Midnight Star, produced by then-current bandmember Reggie Calloway. At the dawning of 1984, despite having achieved much success on the R&B chart and an extremely successful album, No Parking on the Dance Floor the previous year, Midnight Star had yet to make a big impression on the pop charts. However, "Operator" finally scored the band a significant pop hit. The single cracked the pop Top 20, peaking at number eighteen, and remains Midnight Star's only top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also their biggest hit on the R&B chart, hitting number one for five weeks in late 1984 and into 1985.
"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" is a 1972 single written and recorded by Jim Croce. It was released August 23, 1972 and was the second single released from his album You Don't Mess Around with Jim. It reached a peak of 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1972 after spending twelve weeks on the chart.
Operator is a play by David Williamson. Williamson's son Felix played the lead role during its original production.
"Operator" (a.k.a. "Operator Operator") is a song by British group Floy Joy, which was released as the third and final single from their 1984 debut album Into the Hot. The song was written by band members Shaun Ward and Michael Ward. It was produced by Don Was, who also produced the band's entire debut album.
Operator is an upcoming American drama film directed by Logan Kibens. It stars Martin Starr and Mae Whitman.
Usage examples of "operator".
Billy Anker mistrusted the shadow operators though he never would say why.
If Arra was right and the next opening of the gate would release more shadows into the world, Lee needed to be as far from the gate as possible-not standing underneath it chatting to the boom operator while Peter went over the reactions he wanted with Laura.
Private investigators, shady operators like the Boston realtor and the Campbell who had listed Auk House for sale or rent.
Somewhat rudely pushing the azimuth operator aside, Corporal Hart examined the glowing images on the display tube with the utmost care.
The azimuth screen was equally empty, its operator equally intent, having wholly forgotten sick mother, errant boy friend, and laddered stockings as she stared at the screen in front of her.
Room, Beery was standing at a telephone, jiggling the hook up and down savagely, yelling at the operator to trace the call.
The sun had hardly set on the twenty-sixth of November before the bogies began to appear around the edges of the scopes, many more of them than the radar operators remembered having seen before.
John Bonano, a telephone company executive, of his brief experience as an operator providing directory assistance.
The reactor operator, an aggressive first-class petty officer named Manderson, acknowledged and flipped each reactor main coolant pump T-switch on the lower reactor control panel to the slow speed position, then pulled each switch upward.
Father John told the operator to get a couple of cars--BIA, sheriff, somebody-out to the Cooley ranch fast.
Suppose that the cryptanalyst obtains the plaintext of a given cryptogram, perhaps through theft or the error of a radio operator.
Marn in force at eleven this morning, a party of myself, two female retriever operators, two retrievers and three armed guardsmen Van Deef hired to protect us.
Permanent cadre are Ks deniable operators on a salaried retainer not freelancers like me, called on to carry out shit jobs that no one else wants.
I knew from the look in his eyes that I was still lowlife, a K spy, a deniable operator carrying out shit jobs that no one else wanted to do.
Hundreds of thousands of technologically-savvy operators have joined the market in the last two years, as the dotcom bubble burst.