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Narrator: Today's word is "Predator" — noun, pronounced /ˈpredətə/, with the stress on "pred".
Narrator: A predator is an animal that kills and eats other animals.
Narrator: In plain English, predators are the hunters of the natural world.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin praedator, a plunderer, from praeda, booty.
Narrator: A common collocation is "a top predator", which describes an animal with no natural enemies.
Narrator: It differs from "scavenger", because a scavenger eats dead animals, while a predator hunts living ones.
Narrator: In a second sense, a predator is a person or company that exploits weaker people.
Narrator: Biology, conservation, journalism and online safety all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a predator hunts, and its prey runs.
Speaker A: Is a fox a predator?
Speaker B: Yes, it hunts rabbits and birds! PREDATOR comes from the Latin for a plunderer.
Speaker A: Can people be predators too?
Speaker B: Sadly yes, when they target the vulnerable.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Sharks are ocean predators", describing wildlife. "Owls are silent predators", describing hunting style. "Parents worry about online predators", describing dangerous people.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with "-ator", not "-ater", and remember the stress is on the first syllable.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Hunter is its everyday cousin, carnivore is its dietary twin, and killer is the blunt alternative, but predator keeps its wild charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "predator" in AI prompts — useful for ecology simulations and child safety tools.
Speaker A: How would a simulation use it?
Speaker B: Describe the rules clearly.
Prompt: Build a simple predator and prey simulation in JavaScript with foxes and rabbits, and plot both populations over time.
Speaker A: And child safety tools?
Speaker B: Keep guidance calm and clear.
Prompt: Write five age-appropriate tips helping ten-year-olds recognise and report online predators.
Speaker A: Could it help wildlife apps?
Speaker B: Yes, with identification.
Prompt: Create a quiz card for each British predator bird, showing its prey, habitat and hunting time.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Game design.
Prompt: Design an enemy AI for a stealth game where the predator creature tracks the player by sound.
Predator — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary