operate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: operates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: operating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: operated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: operated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Could someone explain how this meeting operates?
In this town, the garbage removal staff operate between six o'clock at midnight.
The police had inside knowledge of how the gang operated.
gloss: To produce an effect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
gloss: To produce an effect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The drug operates by facilitating the negative neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), resulting in the blocking of neural long-term potentiation.
gloss: To produce an effect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Virtues of private Perſons, how Bright and Exemplary ſoever, operate but on Few; on thoſe only who are near enough to obſerve, and inclin'd to imitate them: their ſphere of Action is narrow, and their Influence is confin'd to it.
A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
gloss: To bring about as an effect; to cause.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Strictures upon style, which are for the most part good, but time has operated a change in many respects even since he wrote.
It is supposed that western Europe was overpopulated and that the crusades operated a beneficial reduction of numbers.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The surgeon had to operate on her heart.
I'm being operated tomorrow.
gloss: To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to operate a machine
to operate a system
to operate a casino
Termokarstovoye is 250 km east of Tarkosale where Novatek operates a processing facility for its own onshore production.
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
Related words: cooperate
coöperate
co-operate
opera
operable
operand
operant
operation
operational
operative
operator
opus
Derived words: battery-operated
chief operating officer
coin-operated
inter-operate
interoperate
misoperate
operatable
operatee
operating concept
operating cycle
operating depth
operating expense
operating loss
operating room
operating system
operating table
operating theatre
operating theater
operating time
overoperate
power-operated
reoperate
teleoperate
underoperate
Translations:
lang: Hungarian
word: hat
lang: Hungarian
word: hatást fejt ki
lang: Hungarian
word: működik
lang: Hungarian
word: okoz
lang: Hungarian
word: előidéz
lang: Hungarian
word: közrejátszik
lang: Hungarian
word: szerepet játszik
lang: Hungarian
word: befolyásol
lang: Italian
word: operare
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐνεργέω
roman: energéō
lang: Bulgarian
word: действам
roman: dejstvam
lang: Finnish
word: toimia
lang: Finnish
word: tehota
lang: Hungarian
word: hat
lang: Hungarian
word: működik
lang: Italian
word: operare
lang: Russian
word: рабо́тать
roman: rabótatʹ
lang: Russian
word: де́йствовать
roman: déjstvovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: operar