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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operate (third-person singular simple present operates, present participle operating, simple past and past participle operated)
- To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
- To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- (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.
- To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- To produce, as an effect; to cause.
- To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
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produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power
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[edit] References
- operate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- operate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
operate pl.
- Plural form of operata.
[edit] Verb
operate
- second-person plural present tense of operare
- second-person plural imperative of operare
- feminine plural past participle of operare
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[edit] Participle
operāte
- vocative masculine singular of operātus
