Meanings (ES + gloss)
agente • gendarme
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
He worked as an agent for the government.
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 w…
agente
An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
Agents are means-rational insofar as they effectively pursue the goals they currently have—but means-rationality (even under a narrow-scope interpretation) does not prohibit agents…
So far seems to be the work of chemistry alone; at least we have no right to conclude that any other agent interferes; since hay, when it happens to imbibe moisture, exhibits nearl…
agente
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.
agente
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".
A verb is typically described as active when its subject is the agent or actor. By contrast, a verb is said to be passive when the subject does not perform the action, but is the p…
Near-synonym: doer
Phrases
Agent OrangeIndian agentaccess agentagent generalagent nounagent participleagent-generalagent-orientedagentedagenteseagentessagenthoodagentialagenticagenticityagentingagentiveagentlessagentlikeagentryagentshipagentspacealpha-adrenergic blocking agentanti-caking agentantibacterial agentanticaking agentantimicrobial agentbaggage agentbargain agentbinding agentbioagentbleaching agentblister agentblowing agentbonding agentbook agentbulking agentcasting agentcatalytic agentchange agent
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