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agent | sergeant |

As a noun agent

is agent (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations).

As a proper noun sergeant is

.

agent

English

(wikipedia agent)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
    • Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
  • One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
    • I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36
  • An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
  • (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
  • (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * (grammar) patient

    Derived terms

    * Agent Orange * agent noun * anti-caking agent * antibacterial agent * anticaking agent * antimicrobial agent * bleaching agent * bonding agent * chelating agent * chemical agent * clarifying agent * cleaning agent * coating agent * double agent * firming agent * flavoring agent * flavouring agent * gelling agent * leavening agent * lifting agent * oxidizing agent * processing agent * purchasing agent * raising agent * reducing agent * secret agent * sourcing agent * structuring agent * thickening agent * travel agent * user agent * wetting agent * whitening agent

    Related terms

    * act * action * agency

    See also

    * proxy

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    sergeant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * sergeaunt (obsolete) * serjeant (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia sergeant) (en noun)
  • UK army rank with NATO code , senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
  • The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=13 citation , passage=“Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant .}}
  • (legal, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
    • (Blackstone)
  • (UK, historical)
    • sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon
  • A fish, the cobia.

    • Related terms

    * sergeant baker * sarge

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