Word Finder - operating

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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

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In operation; that operates.

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Don't touch the operating machinery.

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Involved in an operation.

Is the business still operating without me?

Where do you believe he was operating in California?

This companys programme is not limited to operating the railway.

British engineers surveyed the routes for the first lines and superintended the work of construction, but within a few years the, l apanese were able to dispense with foreign aid altogether, both in building and operating their railways.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

Operating on this beam with a second prism, he found that the homogeneous light was not dispersed, and also that it was more refracted the nearer the point from which it was taken approached to the violet end of the spectrum RV.

The government of Ontario has constructed a line to open up the agricultural and mining districts of the north of the province, and is operating it by means of a commission.

Secondly, when Wundt comes to the psychical, he naturally infers from his narrow Kantian definition of substance that there is no proof of a substrate over and above all mental operations, and falsely thinks that he has proved that there is no substance mentally operating in the Aristotelian sense.

Quite recently, however, the author of this article has made a more detailed examination of the question, operating upon several hundreds of rabbits.

History Of Mission Fields The continuity of missionary enthusiasm maintained through the primitive, the medieval, and the modern periods of the Church's history, operating at every critical epoch, and surviving after periods of stagnation and depression, is a very significant fact.

Talbot carries on the process as a quasicontinuous instead of an intermittent one, operating on Too-ton or 200-ton lots of cast iron in such a way as to draw off his steel in 20-ton lots at relatively short intervals, charging a fresh 20-ton lot of cast iron to replace each lot of steel thus drawn off, and thus keeping the furnace full of metal from Monday morning till Saturday night.

To their surprise the Germans now found that, against an inferior foe operating in a more restricted area, they were unable to do as well as the British army had done.

Reinforcements from Ismailia were ordered up, and the British cavalry, operating on the right, helped to check the enemys attack, which showed little vigour.

But in 1815 General Ochterlony, who commanded the army operating by way of the Sutlej, stormed one by one the hill forts which still stud the Himalayan states now under the Punjab government, and compelled the Nepal darbar to sue for peace.

It seems obvious that with this limited force, operating in difficult country, Conrad could not have hoped to achieve the more ambitious results which he had urged would follow upon a successful attack from the Trentino.

The factors upon which the growth of a population depend are internal, operating within the community, or external, arising out of the relations of the community with other countries.

Operating in this way there is no difficulty in obtaining surfaces upon which a drop of water spreads, although from causes that cannot always be traced, a certain proportion of failures is met with.

Vukovich had been operating from the inner part of their country towards Plevlye, Byelopolye, Berane, and Gusinye.

Each township operating under the District Act has two school inspectors - one being elected at each town meeting for a term of two years - who with the township clerk constitute the township board of school inspectors, and to this board is given authority to divide the township into school districts and to exercise a general supervision over the several schools within their jurisdiction; a township may be organized as a single district, called a "township unit district."

The greater part of an army operating in Europe at the present day is accommodated in widespread cantonments, an army corps occupying the villages and farms found within an area of 4 m.

The railways operating independently of the great " trunk " systems are few and unimportant.

Sir Colin Campbell now decided to withdraw the garrison and women and children from the residency, and to hold Lucknow by a strong division operating outside the city.

Force, naturally expansive and operating on the homogeneous atoms which constitute elemental matter, is subject to the law of equilibrium, or equivalence of action and reaction.

Manufacturing is encouraged both by the variety and abundance of raw material furnished by the mines, the forests, the farms and the fisheries, and by the coal and water-power available for operating the machinery.

Indian troops operating outside the Companys dominions were granted increased allowances, but these were automatically reduced when conquest brought the provinces in which they were serving within the British pale.

Still to be provided for is the interest on the operating expenses for eighteen months, which will, at 8%, be 48 cents per acre.

This is about 8% on the capital invested in the land, plant and operating expenses.

His long-continued reflection on the Wolffian doctrine of knowledge had made clear to him that synthetic connexion, the essence of real cognition, was not contained in the products of thinking as a formal activity of mind operating on material otherwise supplied.

The principal railways operating in the state in 1910 were the Louisville & Nashville, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis, the Cincinnati Southern and the Southern.

The Inquisition, however, operating unremittingly in the south at Toulouse, Albi, Carcassonne and other towns during the whole of the 13th century and a great part of the 14th, succeeded in crushing the heresy.

An outside light wasn't operating making it impossible for Howie to describe the man except to say he looked strong and was medium height.

I was embedded at this company we know is operating as a cover for Czerno's operations.

He'd had a million chances to harm her while she lay unconscious and vulnerable on the operating table and never did.

To have the job you need to be proficient in all aspects of operating a wine buff business.

Given that there are only two licensed abattoirs operating in the country, disposal options are extremely limited.

It is a basic text editor which does not require any adaptation of the operating system to type Arabic.

Of course Weber was right in terms of operating policy - the ECB does not target a monetary aggregate.

The spies are younger, less jaded but equally cynical and still operating in a wholly amoral world.

Items are ordered so that operating resource appropriations in aid are listed in front of non-operating appropriations in aid.

We expect that we will need a supplemental appropriation next year to meet our operating costs.

Can I have an autoclave in an operating theater?

Invariably you will need to spend lots of time taking your computer back to absolute basics before loading up the new operating system.

Even conventional systems can struggle with the unfriendly loads imposed by a number of xenon beacons operating together.

Steering is by a small bevel at the base of the column to a bevel operating the steering arm.

The rules for operating your corporation are set in what are called corporate bylaws.

Free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, is defined as cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.

It suggests that they are, in effect, operating a price fixing cartel here in Northern Ireland.

The acquisition of PDN gives Taghmen infrastructure from which the Company can immediately generate operating cash flow.

The Company will continue its efforts to generate positive operating cash flow throughout the balance of fiscal 2001.

The household business continues to make a strong operating cash flow which helps finance Dairy Crest's growth aspirations.