operate
Verb
Verb Forms: operated, operating, operates
- To function, perform a task, or control a machine.
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- perform as expected when applied
- handle and cause to function
- "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
- happen
- keep engaged
- perform surgery on
- "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
- To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- To produce an effect.
- 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.
- To produce an effect.
- To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- To bring about as an effect; to cause.
- 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.
- To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
Examples
- Could someone explain how this meeting operates?
- He knew he had to operate with precision to win the Words With Friends tournament.
- I'm being operated tomorrow.
- In this town, the garbage removal staff operate between six o'clock at midnight.
- The police had inside knowledge of how the gang operated.
- The surgeon had to operate on her heart.
- to operate a casino
- to operate a machine
- to operate a system
Origin / Etymology
From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Synonyms
control, engage, function, go, lock, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, mesh, operate on, run, work
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
operate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordoperate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
operate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary