operate

[OpĀ·er*ate]

You'll want to find a skilled surgeon to operate on your hand. Once your hand is working again, you'll be able to operate your buzz saw with ease.

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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

Verb
perform surgery on; "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"

Verb
happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"

Verb
perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

Verb
handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"

Verb
keep engaged; "engaged the gears"

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perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won''t go unless it''s plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn''t work anymore"

Verb
direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"


v. i.
To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

v. i.
To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

v. i.
To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

v. t.
To produce, as an effect; to cause.

v. t.
To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.


Operate

Op"er*ate , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Operated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Operating.] [L. operatus, p.p. of operari to work, fr. opus, operis, work, labor; akin to Skr. apas, and also to G. '81ben to exercise, OHG. uoben, Icel. fa. Cf. Inure, Maneuver, Ure.] 1. To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act. 2. To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system. 3. To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.
A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
4. (Surg.) 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. 5. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. [Brokers' Cant]

Operate

Op"er*ate, v. t. 1. To produce, as an effect; to cause.
The same cause would operate a diminution of the value of stock.
2. To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

To produce, as an effect; to cause.

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Usage Examples

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

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Other Usage Examples

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

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