Oper vs Opera - What's the difference?
oper | opera |
(Internet) A network operator on IRC.
* 2000 , Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier (issue 28, page 187)
(lb) A theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
(lb) The score for such a work.
A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera , the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
A company dedicated to performing such works.
(lb) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembing an opera.
A collection of work (plural of opus).
As a noun oper
is (internet) a network operator on irc.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.
