EGAVE

operate

About 24.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
    Could someone explain how this meeting operates?
  2. verb To produce an effect. To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially to take appropriate effect on the human system. To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  3. verb To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially to take appropriate effect on the human system.
  4. verb To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  5. verb To bring about as an effect; to cause.
  6. verb 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.
    The surgeon had to operate on her heart.
  7. verb To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  8. verb To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
    to operate a machine

Similar words

function control work engage maneuver run manoeuvre lock mesh go

Often followed by

in with on the as at a to and

Word family

operated operates operating

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