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operate
English
Etymology
From Latin oper?tus, past participle of oper?r? (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), from opus, operis (“work, labor”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p??e?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??p??e?t/
- Hyphenation: op?er?ate
Verb
operate (third-person singular simple present operates, present participle operating, simple past and past participle operated)
- (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
- (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- September 28, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman
- A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
- September 28, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- (medicine, transitive or intransitive) 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.
- (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
- (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
Derived terms
- inter-operate
- operatable
Related terms
Translations
References
- operate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- operate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Adjective
operate pl
- plural of operata
Verb
operate
- second-person plural present of operare
- second-person plural imperative of operare
- feminine plural past participle of operare
Anagrams
- poetare
- poeterà
Latin
Participle
oper?te
- vocative masculine singular of oper?tus
operate From the web:
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preop
English
Alternative forms
- pre-op
Adjective
preop (not comparable)
- Alternative form of pre-op
Noun
preop (plural preops)
- Alternative form of pre-op
Anagrams
- OPREP, repop
preop From the web:
- what's preoperational stage
- what preoperative care means
- what preoperative mean
- what preoperative anxiety
- preoperative means
- what preoperative antibiotics
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