'operate' definitions:
Definition of 'operate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: operate, run]
verb
Perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function, work, operate, go, run] [ant: malfunction, misfunction]
verb
Handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever" [syn: operate, control]
verb
Perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense [syn: manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate]
verb
Happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
verb
verb
Perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life" [syn: operate on, operate]
Synonyms of 'operate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- angle,
- be caught short,
- be effective,
- be in action,
- be responsible for,
- be short,
- behave,
- belong,
- brew,
- bucket,
- bucketshop,
- cabal,
- carry on,
- carry out,
- carry through,
- chart a course,
- collude,
- complot,
- concoct,
- cond,
- conduct,
- conn,
- connive,
- conspire,
- control,
- cook up,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- coxswain,
- cut,
- deal with,
- deposit margin,
- direct,
- do with,
- drive,
- employ,
- engineer,
- exercise,
- exert,
- finagle,
- finesse,
- frame,
- frame up,
- function,
- go,
- go long,
- guide,
- handle,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- have effect,
- have free play,
- have play,
- have the conn,
- helm,
- hold on,
- intrigue,
- keep,
- lay a plot,
- machinate,
- make,
- make a killing,
- make a scoop,
- make go,
- make use of,
- manage,
- maneuver,
- manipulate,
- margin up,
- militate,
- miss the market,
- move,
- navigate,
- open up,
- ordain,
- overstay the market,
- percolate,
- perform,
- perform on,
- perk,
- pilot,
- play,
- play the market,
- plot,
- plunge,
- ply,
- practice,
- proceed,
- pyramid,
- react,
- rig,
- run,
- scalp,
- scheme,
- scoop the market,
- see to,
- serve,
- shape a course,
- speculate,
- stag,
- stag the market,
- steer,
- take,
- take a flier,
- take care of,
- take effect,
- tick,
- trade on margin,
- use,
- utilize,
- venture,
- wangle,
- wield,
- work
Words containing 'operate'
- in operation,
- operable,
- operant,
- operate on,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operationalism,
- operationally,
- operations,
- operative,
- operatively,
- operator,
- Calculus of operations,
- Distributive operation,
- Front of operations,
- Line of operations,
- Plastic operation,
- Reverse operation,
- Subcutaneous operation,
- Subperiosteal operation,
- amphibious operation,
- arithmetic operation,
- asynchronous operation,
- auxiliary operation,
- base of operations,
- binary operation,
- black operation,
- boolean operation,
- camera operator,
- chemical operations,
- clandestine operation,
- cognitive operation,
- combined operation,
- company operator,
- computer operation,
- concurrent operation,
- consecutive operation,
- control operation,
- covert operation,
- dyadic operation,
- elevator operator,
- exfiltration operation,
- existential operator,
- eye operation,
- field of operation,
- field of operations,
- identity operator,
- intelligence operation,
- joint operation,
- linear operator,
- logic operation,
- logical operation,
- machine operation,
- majority operation,
- martyr operation,
- mathematical operation,
- matrix operation,
- military operation,
- military operations,
- monadic operation,
- multiplex operation,
- newsstand operator,
- operant conditioning,
- operating budget,
- operating capability,
- operating capital,
- operating cost,
- operating expense,
- operating instructions,
- operating microscope,
- operating procedure,
- operating room,
- operating statement,
- operating surgeon,
- operating system,
- operating table,
- operating theater,
- operating theatre,
- operation code,
- operational casualty,
- operational cell,
- operational damage,
- operations research,
- operative field,
- operator gene,
- overt operation,
- parallel operation,
- peacekeeping operation,
- printing operation,
- psychological operation,
- pyramid operation,
- radio operator,
- rescue operation,
- sacrifice operation,
- sequential operation,
- serial operation,
- shirodkar's operation,
- simultaneous operation,
- sting operation,
- surgical operation,
- switchboard operator,
- synchronous operation,
- telegraph operator,
- telephone operator,
- theater of operations,
- theatre of operations,
- threshold operation,
- trading operations,
- unary operation,
- undercover operation,
- A deep line of operations,
- big time operator,
- binary arithmetic operation,
- chief operating officer,
- coin-operated,
- disk operating system,
- hand-operated,
- off-line operation,
- operation desert storm,
- riot control operation,
- simulated military operation,
- standard operating procedure,
- standing operating procedure,
- unix operating system,
- buy-and-bust operation,
- fixed-cycle operation,
- floating-point operation,
- meuse-argonne operation,
- microsoft disk operating system,
- purse-string operation,
- real-time operation,
- sewing-machine operator,
- sex-change operation,
- co-operative republic of guyana,
- million floating point operations per second,
- trillion floating point operations per second