operate
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈɒpəɹeɪt/]
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1. operate (verb) — sense 1
Definition: To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
Example: Could someone explain how this meeting operates?
2. operate (verb) — sense 2
Definition: To produce an effect.
Example: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
3. operate (verb) — sense 3
Definition: To produce an effect.: To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
Example: The drug operates by facilitating the negative neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), resulting in the blocking of neural long-term potentiation.
Structure of the word
Roots:- h₃ep (Proto-Indo-European)
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