An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
OPERATOR
hustler, wheeler dealer, operator
(noun) a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
operator, manipulator
(noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; “the operator of the switchboard”
operator
(noun) someone who owns or operates a business; “who is the operator of this franchise?”
operator
(noun) a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
operator
(noun) (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)
One who operates.
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.
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.
Hyponyms
• arithmetic operator
• assignment operator
• binary operator
• bitwise operator
• conditional operator
• comparison operator
• differential operator
• infix operator
• integral operator
• lifted operator
• logic operator
• smooth operator
• ternary operator
• unary operator
Anagrams
• aeroport, aëroport, poor rate
Source: Wiktionary
Op"er*a`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
1. One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
2. (Surg.)
Definition: One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
3. A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. [Brokers' Cant]
4. (Math.)
Definition: The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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