Word Finder - operate

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To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

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To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially to take appropriate effect on the human system.

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To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

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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.

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To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

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To produce, as an effect; to cause.

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To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

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to operate a machine

I hope you will find him sympathetic and ready to co- operate in promoting all that is reasonable.

It did not operate as a rule beyond the limits of race.

That's up to you but you'll need me to operate the machines.

In England, in addition to the Marconi Company, the Lodge-Muirhead Syndicate was formed to operate the inventions of Sir Oliver Lodge and Dr Muirhead.

A third Italian army would, if expedient, pass into Germany, to operate against either France or Russia.

I got a kick out of watching him operate.

He and I agreed it would operate totally on its own, unaware of our operation.

The uneasiness caused by the excessive dependence of Great Britain upon the United States for cotton, coupled with the Recent belief that shortages of supply are more frequent than R they ought to be, and the fear that diminishing returns attempts to open may operate in America, occasioned the formation in England of the British Cotton Growing Association on.

But finding it impracticable to operate in that direction, he left Hill on the west side and crossed at Grenade below Toulouse (April 3).

The upper sashes may also be made to lift, and are in many respects more convenient to operate.

These operate by electrostatic induction and convert mechanical work into electrostatic energy by the aid of a small initial charge which is continually being replenished or reinforced.

Alight does own and operate a brick and mortar store in New York, but they make shopping for trendy plus size fashions easy with their large online inventory.

The new theme park will be owned by Hard Rock International, but will operate under a long-term lease with Hard Rock Park Myrtle Beach Operations, LLC, the group that designed, developed, and constructed the amusement park.

The park's water rides, Snake River Falls and Thunder Canyon, as well as the Paddlewheel Excursions, are closed for the season and do not operate during Halloweekends.

This ensures the coaster will continue to operate and offer thrills to new generations of coaster lovers, even as bigger, faster, and more powerful inverted coasters are constructed around the world.

In fact, in 1975, Hall could no longer afford to operate the park and was forced to sell Carowinds to Taft Broadcasting.

Most games at AnimixGames rely on the arrow keys and spacebar instead of point and click to operate.

The system could surf the internet and check e-mail (via text only) and operate as a PDA with a calendar, a calculator, and a memo function.

To give you a sense of how the different games operate, here are brief overviews for three of the most popular titles.

It keeps track of your stats and most of the people online don't operate as predictable as the AI on the single player mode.

For the purposes of this Nintendo DS walkthrough, we will not describe how to operate the in-game menus found within specific DS titles.

Culinary and hospitality students at the college operate four restaurants as part of their professional training.

There are, therefore, a number of agencies, all of which operate in shoal waters on the lee side of islands, or in shallow lagoons in such regions as the Bahamas, and the result of all these is to throw down calcium carbonate from solution in sea-water as minute needle-shaped crystals or little balls of aragonite.

Of these the works facing the east would in war time cover the assembly of troops destined to operate outside the Water Line, while those of the north and south fronts would be surrounded by inundations and serve chiefly to control the sluices.

This gives a load of 50 tons per eccentric. One motor is placed at each end of the span to operate the eccentrics and also to release the latches and raise the rails of the steam track.

Buell's successor retained the positions about Nashville, whilst a new Army of the Ohio prepared to operate in east Tennessee.

Subsidiary forces were to operate on the sea-board, in the Shenandoah Valley and elsewhere.

In the closing months of the year Grant's brilliant cavalry commander Sheridan had been put in command of an army to operate against Early in the Valley.

Stuart was to operate at his discretion north of the Chickahominy, and it seems that he was attracted by the enemy's abandoned depot at White House more than by McClellan's retreating army.

Yet there is strong evidence against the existence of any law in the nature of an internal perfecting tendency which would operate independently of external conditions.

Throughout this mystic religious world it was above all the influence of the late Greek religion, derived from Plato, that also continued to operate; it is filled with the echo of the song, the first note of which was sounded by the Platonists, about the heavenly home of the soul and the homeward journey of the wise to the higher world of light.

Meanwhile a much more important influence had begun to operate on him, arising out of his study of Kant and Fichte.

Here we note the stress laid on the Invocation of the Spirit to operate the transformation of the elements, though in what sense they are transformed is not defined.

In April he was promoted lieutenant-general and placed in command of a division of the troops destined to operate against the French in Spain or Portugal.

Legislative interference with agricultural operations or with the distribution of food-supplies, currency restrictions and failure of transport, which have all caused famines in the past, are unlikely thus to operate again; nor is it probable that the modern speculators who attempt to make "corners" in wheat could produce the evil effects contemplated in the old statutes against forestallers and regrators.

But in 1909 Chinese troops were sent to operate on the Sze-ch`uen frontier against certain insurgent lamas, whom they handled severely.

Wimshurst constructed numerous very powerful machines of this type, some of them with "multiple plates, which operate i - almost any climate, and rarely fail to charge themselves and deliver a torrent of sparks between the disf El charge balls whenever the winch is turned.

The appointed concessionaire will operate the existing tunnels and the new tunnel for a period of up to thirty years.

The RAS may operate independently of or in close coordination with the ACS, or it may provide troops to the ACS.

We actively promote good teaching practice and operate award schemes to reward excellence and innovation in teaching.

Furthermore no senses operate at this level and the nature of the Atman is ultimately ineffable.

Organic manufacturers and farmers must operate according to government regulations put on organic products.

Most of the programs don't require a high-end computer with a fast graphics card and are very easy for any child who can operate a mouse.

Sadly, 1977 was the first video game crash, even though Atari and Magnavox continued to operate.

In the Bessemer process, and indeed in most high-temperature processes, to operate on a large scale has, in addition to the usual economies which it offers in other industries, a special one, arising from the fact that from a large hot furnace or hot mass in general a very much smaller proportion of its heat dissipates through radiation and like causes than from a smaller body, just as a thin red-hot wire cools in the air much faster than a thick bar equally hot.

Selection cannot create the materials on which it is supposed to operate; the beginnings of new organs, the initial stages of new functions cannot be supposed to have been useful.

This still continues to operate, having been promoted by the flour-milling industry, which was revolutionized by certain local inventions.

For he left no heir to carry on his work; his death " loosened the bonds which restrained the disruptive forces always ready to operate in India, and allowed them to produce their normal result, a medley of petty states, with ever-varying boundaries, and engaged in unceasing internecine war."

The rising Mahratta power was thus for a time checked, and the Mogul armies were set free to operate in the eastern Deccan.

To suppress the Pindari hordes, who were supported by the sympathy, more or less open, of all the Mahratta chiefs, Lord Hastings (1817) collected the strongest British army that had been seen in India, numbering nearly 1 20,000 men, half to operate from the north, half from the south.