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worker

noun
/ˈwɜː.kə/UK/ˈwɝ.kɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.

  1. inherited from werkere

Definitions

  1. One who works

    One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

    • Near-synonym: employee
    • Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.

  2. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

  3. A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

    • This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

The neighborhood

Derived

aid worker, anti-worker, antiworker, artworker, autoworker, bodyworker, brain worker, brassworker, bronzeworker, building worker, cabinetworker, camera worker, camera-worker, careworker, caseworker, clothworker, coalworker, construction worker, copperworker, counterworker, co-worker, coworker, craftworker, crowdworker, dayworker, day worker, day-worker, decoration worker, deskworker, dock worker, dockworker, domestic worker, dreamworker, enamelworker, essential worker, evilworker, exworker, faceworker, factoryworker, farm worker · +125 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at worker. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at worker. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at worker

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA