different between organize vs operate

English

Alternative forms

• organise (British)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French organiser, from Medieval Latin organiz?, from Latin organum (“organ”); see organ.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????na?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????na?z/
• Hyphenation: or?gan?ize

Verb

organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized)

1. (transitive) To arrange in working order.
2. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
   • 1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison

     This original and supreme will organizes the government.

3. (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life

   • These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce.

4. (transitive, music) To sing in parts.

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5. (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• agonizer

Portuguese

Verb

organize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of organizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of organizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of organizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of organizar

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)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
2. (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.
3. (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.

4. (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.
5. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
6. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
7. (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

1. plural of operata

Verb

operate

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

Anagrams

• poetare
• poeterà

Latin

Participle

oper?te

1. vocative masculine singular of oper?tus