Operator vs Staff - What's the difference?
operator | staff |
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.
(label) A long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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(label) The employees of a business.
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, title= (label) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*Sir (c.1564-1627)
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(label) The rung of a ladder.
* Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels)
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(label) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(label) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(label) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
As a noun operator
is an operator, a service provider, an isp.As a proper noun staff is
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(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.
Derived terms
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(wikipedia staff)Noun
F. E. Penny
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Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients', passage=Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".}}
- Methought this staff , mine office badge in court, / Was broke in twain.
- All his officers brake their staves'; but at their return new ' staves were delivered unto them.
- I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves .
- Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.