Look up: Worker

1. worker
   The roller in the CARDING MACHINE which, in conjunction with the CARDING DRUM, opens and combs out the fibrous masses of cotton presented to it.
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2. worker
   [n] - a person who works at a specific occupation 2. [n] - sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
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3. worker
   any person employed by an employer,including trainees and apprentices but excluding domestic servants Category: Labour • a general term that includes both the factory and clerical personnel of business and industrial organisations but not employees above the rank of superintendent,i.e.al...
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4. Worker
   Work'er noun 1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. « Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.» Shak. 2. (Zoology) One of the neuter, or steril...
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5. worker
   1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. 'Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.' (Shak) ... 2. <zoology> One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual o...
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6. worker
   noun a person who works at a specific occupation; `he is a good worker`
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7. Worker
   • (n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White. • (n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
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8. worker
   (from the article `beekeeping`) ...virtually as a single organism. It usually consists of the queen bee, a fertilized female capable of laying a thousand or more eggs per day; from ... ...the individuals produced are diploid, but, unlike the queen, they are sterile. This sterility results indirectly from a chemical secreted by the ... ...
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9. Worker
   a non-reproductive female in social insects
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