Ninja vs Agent - What's the difference?
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(martial arts, historical) A person trained primarily in stealth, espionage, assassination and the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu.
A Mongolian amateurish private miner (mainly for gold); after the shape of the plastic bowls used to wash metal ore with mercury, roughly resembling one of the .
* 2007 October 10, Jonathan Watts, "Prospectors and 'ninja' miners flood to east's El Dorado" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/10/international.mainsection1], The Guardian ,
(slang) Juggalo version of the epithet "nigga".
To act in the manner of a , especially in the areas of speed and power.
(gaming, slang) To claim an item in a game by abusing game mechanics, often despite having no real need for the item or ability to use it.
(Internet, slang) To post a response on a message board immediately before someone else unknowingly posts a response saying the same thing.
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
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.
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".
As a noun agent is
agent (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations).ninja
English
(wikipedia ninja)Noun
(en-noun)- Many were former nomads, but as the gold rush gathered pace, students, vets and taxi drivers from Ulan Bator joined the ninjas , not just in Ogoomor but in other gold towns across the country.
- What up, my ninja !
Coordinate terms
* kunoichi * shinobiDerived terms
* ninjitsu * ninjetteVerb
- That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!
- When I answered the OP's question, I saw that Porthos had ninja'd me by posting the same answer just before I did.
Anagrams
* English refractory feminine rhymes ----agent
English
(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- 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