Irc vs Oper - What's the difference?
irc | oper |
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(intransitive, Internet, informal) To participate in IRC (Internet Relay Chat).
* 1995 , Stuart Harris, The Irc Survival Guide
* 2002 , James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market
* 2004 , Allison Rushby, Friday Night Cocktails
(Internet) A network operator on IRC.
* 2000 , Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier (issue 28, page 187)
In internet terms the difference between irc and oper
is that irc is initialism of w:Internet Relay Chat|Internet Relay Chat|lang=en It is a protocol for instant communication via the Internet while oper is a network operator on IRC.As an initialism IRC
is initialism of w:Internet Relay Chat|Internet Relay Chat|lang=en It is a protocol for instant communication via the Internet.As a verb IRC
is to participate in IRC (Internet Relay Chat).irc
English
Derived terms
* IRCerNoun
Verb
(en verb)<- irced 2 yrs without aliases ...
- ...IRCing can confirm the observation that work and play appear to constitute a continuum for the digerati.
- ...not that this is strange or anything, I do the same thing myself when I'm IRCing — there're some real weirdos out there roaming the Net...
Anagrams
* * * *oper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Chanops can kick people off a channel; opers can ban people logging in from specific Internet sites from participating in IRC.