OPERATE
\ˈɒpəɹˌe͡ɪt], \ˈɒpəɹˌeɪt], \ˈɒ_p_ə_ɹ_ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of OPERATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
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direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
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perform surgery on; "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"
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happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
By Princeton University
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keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
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direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
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perform surgery on; "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"
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happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
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To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
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To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
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To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
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To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
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To produce, as an effect; to cause.
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To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
By Oddity Software
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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
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To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
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To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
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To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
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To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
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To produce, as an effect; to cause.
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To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. To cause a movement of the bowels, said of a laxative or cathartic remedy. 2. To work upon the body by the hands or by means of cutting or other instruments for the purpose of correcting a deformity, removing a tumor or a limb, etc.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To work: to exert strength: to produce any effect: to exert moral power: (med.) to take effect upon the human system: (surgery) to perform some unusual act upon the body with the hand or an instrument.
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To effect: to produce by agency.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.