Actor and Operator

Actor

Actor noun - One who acts professionally (as in a play, movie, or television show).

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Operator and actor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operator" instead a noun "Actor".

Nearby Words: acting, actress

Operator noun - An agent that operates some apparatus or machine.

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Actor and operator are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Actor" instead a noun "Operator".

live	live actor	live operator
human	human actor	human operator
old	old actor	old operator
female	female actor	female operator
Other adjectives: original, single, actual, real, male, young, trained, new, major, former, different, Indian.

There's Jonathan Pryce, the actor, and then there's John Price, the SAS operator.

Source: Names The Same / Real Vs Fictional
In an interview with a voice actor on a The Transformers DVD (he was the voice of Megatron and Soundwave, among others), he says that Welker could perform a call on a pay phone — the coin dropping in the slot, the ringing, the operator, and both sides of the conversation — with ease.

Source: Man Of A Thousand Voices / English
Later calls were performed by a voice actor playing The Operator, with whom players engaged in role play.The audio drama consists of recordings taken by Durga in 2552, explaining what's going on in the future.

Source: ARG / I Love Bees

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