Attendant vs Operator - What's the difference?
attendant | operator |
One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
Going with; associated; concomitant.
* Sir Walter Scott
(legal) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
One who operates.
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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.
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.
(linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
As nouns the difference between attendant and operator
is that attendant is one who attends; one who works with or watches something while operator is an operator, a service provider, an isp.As an adjective attendant
is going with; associated; concomitant.attendant
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Alternative forms
* attendaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
Adjective
(en adjective)- They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
- The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
- the widow attendant to the heir
- (Cowell)
See also
* part and parcel ----operator
English
(wikipedia operator)Noun
(en noun)- In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator , binding a phonetically empty variable.