operate

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin operatus, past participle of operari (to work, labor, toil, have effect), from opus, operis (work, labor).

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Infinitive
to operate

Third person singular
operates

Simple past
operated

Past participle
operated

Present participle
operating

to operate (third-person singular simple present operates, present participle operating, simple past and past participle operated)

  1. To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
  2. To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
  3. To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  4. (medicine) 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.
  5. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  6. To produce, as an effect; to cause.
  7. To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

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operate pl.

  1. Feminine form of operato.

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operate

  1. second-person plural present tense of operare
  2. second-person plural imperative of operare
  3. feminine plural past participle of operare

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