operate

== English == === Etymology === From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒpəɹeɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑpəɹeɪt/ Rhymes: -ɒpəɹeɪt Hyphenation: op‧er‧ate === Verb === operate (third-person singular simple present operates, present participle operating, simple past and past participle operated) (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. (intransitive) To produce an effect. (intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system. (intransitive) To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. (transitive) To bring about as an effect; to cause. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) 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. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. (transitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “operate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “operate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Italian == === Adjective === operate pl plural of operata === Verb === operate inflection of operare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative feminine plural past participle === Anagrams === poetare, poeterà == Latin == === Participle === operāte vocative masculine singular of operātus == Spanish == === Verb === operate second-person singular voseo imperative of operar combined with te