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operate /opˈə-rāt/ intransitive verb- To work
- To exert strength
- To produce any effect
- To exert moral power
- To be in activity, act, carry on business
- To take effect upon the human system (medicine)
- To perform some surgical act upon the body with the hand or an instrument
transitive verb- To effect, bring about or cause to occur
- To work
- To conduct, run or carry on
ORIGIN: L operārī, -ātus, from opera work, effort, closely connected with opus, operis work operabilˈity noun opˈerable adjective - Capable of treatment by a surgical operation
- Able to be operated
- Practicable
opˈerand noun Something on which an operation is performed, eg a quantity in mathematics or, in computing, the values on which program instructions operate opˈerant adjective - Operative
- Active
- Effective
- Denoting behaviour that is spontaneous rather than responding to a stimulus (psychology)
noun An operator opˈerāting adjective operāˈtion noun (also (informal, esp military or surgery) op) - The act or process of operating
- Something that is done or carried out
- Agency
- Influence
- A method of working
- An action or series of movements
- A surgical procedure
operāˈtional adjective - Relating to operations
- Ready for action
operāˈtionalism or operāˈtionism noun (philosophy) The theory that defines scientific concepts by means of the operations used to prove or determine them operāˈtionalist or operāˈtionist noun and adjective operāˈtionally adverb opˈerative adjective - Having the power of operating or acting
- Exerting force
- Producing effects
- Efficacious
noun- A worker, esp one with special skills
- A labourer
opˈeratively adverb opˈerativeness noun opˈerātor noun - A person or thing that operates
- Someone responsible for the operation of a machine, instrument, or apparatus
- Someone employed to connect calls, etc, at a telephone exchange
- Someone who deals in stocks
- The owner of a store, business, mine, etc (US)
- A symbol, signifying an operation to be performed (mathematics)
- A crooked or calculating person, a shark (informal, esp US)
- A sequence of DNA to which a repressor or an activator (a protein which increases the production of a gene product) can bind (biology)
operant conditioning noun (psychology) A learning procedure in which the subject's response to a stimulus is reinforced if the response is desired operating system noun (computing) A collection of programs that controls the activities of a computer system (also called systems software) operating table noun The narrow table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation operating theatre or operating room noun A room in a hospital, etc equipped for the performing of surgical operations operational amplifier noun A very stable high-gain amplifier used in electronic circuits operational research or operations research noun - Research to discover how a weapon, tactic or strategy can be altered to give better results
- Similar research to promote maximum efficiency in industrial spheres
operative words plural noun - The words in a deed legally effecting the transaction (eg devise and bequeath in a will)
- (loosely; often in sing) the most significant word or words
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