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
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard 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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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
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