operate
To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
Example
“Could someone explain how this meeting operates?”
Other meanings
To produce an effect.
To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially to take appropriate effect on the human system.
Related words
- interoperate
- overoperate
- underoperate
- battery-operated
- chief operating officer
- coin-operated
- inter-operate
- misoperate
- operatable
- operatee
- operating concept
- operating cycle
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "operātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “operate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.