operate
/ˈɑpəɹeɪt/ verbo A2En español: operar, obrar
- To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. · Could someone explain how this meeting operates?· In this town, the garbage removal staff operate between six o'clock at midnight.
- To produce an effect.
- To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
- To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- To bring about as an effect; to cause.
- 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. · The surgeon had to operate on her heart.· I'm being operated tomorrow.
- To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work. · to operate a machine· to operate a system
He/she/it operates · Pasado operated · Participio pasado operated · Forma en -ing operating
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De la biblioteca
I had imagined you as operating from the street, where my friend, Lestrade and his merry men were awaiting you.
His fear of her has always operated, I know, when they were together; and a good deal is to be imputed to his wish of forwarding the match with Miss de Bourgh, which I am certain he has very much at heart.”
A food truck costs much less money to operate every single day.
First and foremost, it was a hardworking fishing boat operating in the North Atlantic.
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