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UK
/ˈɒpəɹˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈɑpɝˌeɪt, ˈɔpɝˌeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɑpɝˌeɪt, ˈɔpɝˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
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handle and cause to function
control the lever
do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol -
perform as expected when applied
The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in
This old radio doesn't work anymore
Does this old car still run well? -
keep engaged
engaged the gears -
direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
She is running a relief operation in the Sudan -
perform surgery on
The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life
How To Use operate In A Sentence
- The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
- These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
- The outside activity is monitored through a battery-operated thermo sensor, which can be placed 30m away from the main unit. Times, Sunday Times
- Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
- My question is this: since BAS drugs operate via a non-absorbed, non-systemic action they are anion-exchange resins, are they at all dangerous? More statin madness | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
- ‘The council operates a priority order for gritting roads and footpaths,’ a spokesman said.
- He urged booksellers to cooperate to form a nationwide chain of ecumenical book outlets that would be well-funded and professionally run.
- She held her ears when the jackhammer started to operate
- Invitro certain combinations of oncogenes cooperate to transform primary rat cells.
- It was battery operated, and would not rely on a malfunction in the main power supply.
