updatern.
1. = update n. 1. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > updating
updating1959
updater1961
update1968
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1973 A. Mann Tiara viii. 69 The report..comprised material from the Department's computerised data bank, supplemented by ‘updaters’ from stations in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Khartoum, Kampala and Rome.
1978 Washington Post 11 Feb. c3/6 Another updater, a muffler on the report that U. of Delaware's head football coach..might be ready to join Marv Levy's Kansas City Chiefs.
1986 R. Littell Sisters ii. xii. 174 The discrepancies between their version of events, contained in the Sisters' formal Op Proposal updater, and Thursday's version.
2.
a. A person who updates. Frequently in Computing.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > modernizing > one who modernizes
modernizer1732
updater1974
society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [noun] > processing > operator
pre-editor1934
post-editor1953
updater1974
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 June 629/2 The account..has neither that malingering suspicion of sentimentalists that attaches to religious themes, nor the tendency to be clever at the expense of the past usually irresistible to up-daters of history.
1984 N.Y. Times 12 May i. 22/4 Herbert Mitgang reports in ‘Shakespeare's Language is Updated’ that A. L. Rowse (the updater) is preparing for a counterattack from ‘the old academic fuddy-duddies’.
1989 RQ Summer 522/1 The final data element in Infofile is the Last Update. This field contains the last date updated and the initials of the updater.
b. A computer program, software package, etc. which carries out updates.
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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > system or utility programmes > other
rollback1954
loader1959
package1964
scheduler1966
post-processor1967
shell1974
disc emulator1977
profiler1977
spooler1979
updater1980
sniffer1986
vaccine1986
antivirus1988
society > computing and information technology > software > [adjective] > applications > updater
updater1980
1980 Amer. Banker 23 Sept. 16/1 The passbook updater posts quarterly interest and direct deposit transactions on a number of government payments including Social Security, [etc.].
1991 MacUser Mar. 66/2 You have to update Navigator by running an updater application.
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