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Operate

//ˈɒpəɹeɪt// verb

Verb

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To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. intransitive, transitive
"Could someone explain how this meeting operates?"
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perform surgery on wordnet
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To produce an effect. intransitive
"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."
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perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense wordnet
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To produce an effect.; To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system. intransitive
"The drug operates by facilitating the negative neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), resulting in the blocking of neural long-term potentiation."

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handle and cause to function wordnet
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To produce an effect.; To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. intransitive
"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."
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keep engaged wordnet
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To bring about as an effect; to cause. transitive
"Strictures upon style, which are for the most part good, but time has operated a change in many respects even since he wrote."
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perform as expected when applied wordnet
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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. intransitive, transitive
"The surgeon had to operate on her heart."
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direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. wordnet
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To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. intransitive, transitive
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To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work. transitive
"to operate a machine"

From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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