different between operation vs episode

English

Etymology

From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin oper?ti?, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: op?e?ra?tion

Noun

operation (countable and uncountable, plural operations)

1. The method by which a device performs its function.

   It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.

2. The method or practice by which actions are done.
3. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

   • the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operations on the stomach and guts.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.

4. A planned undertaking.

   The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.

   The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.

5. A business or organization.

   We run our operation from a storefront.

   They run a multinational produce-supply operation.

6. (medicine) A surgical procedure.

   She had an operation to remove her appendix.
7. (computing, logic, mathematics) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);
   (mathematics, more formally) a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.

8. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
9. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

   • The bards […] had great operation on the vulgar.

Synonyms

• (mathematics): function, transformation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (oper?shon)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: opairèisean

Translations

References

• operation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• operation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• operation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• petronoia

Interlingua

Noun

operation (plural operationes)

1. operation (surgical procedure)

Middle French

Noun

operation f (plural operations)

1. function; role

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin oper?ti?

Pronunciation

Noun

operation c

1. (medicine) surgery

Declension

References

• operation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• operation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

English

Etymology

From French épisode, from New Latin *ep?sodium, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ?????????? (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ??? (epí, “on”) + ??? (eis, “into”) + ???? (hodós, “way”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?s??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p?so?d/
• Hyphenation: epi?sode

Noun

episode (plural episodes)

1. An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
2. An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

Hyponyms

• (instalment of a TV series): bottle episode

Derived terms

• episodic
• episodical

Translations

Further reading

• episode in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• episode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• poesied

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French épisode, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.pi?so?.d?/
• Hyphenation: epi?so?de
• Rhymes: -o?d?

Noun

episode f (plural episoden or episodes, diminutive episodetje n)

1. An episode (instalment).
2. An episode (action, time period or sequence of events).

Synonyms

• (drama): aflevering

Derived terms

• episodisch

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: episode

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch episode, from French épisode, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pi?sod?]
• Hyphenation: èpi?so?dê

Noun

èpisodê (first-person possessive episodeku, second-person possessive episodemu, third-person possessive episodenya)

1. episode: an incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

   Synonyms: kejadian, peristiwa

Alternative forms

• episod (nonstandard Indonesian), episod (standard Malay)

Related terms

Further reading

• “episode” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion), via French épisode

Noun

episode m (definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episoder, definite plural episodene)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion), via French épisode

Noun

episode m (definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episodar, definite plural episodane)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.