Operable(a.) Practicable.
Operance(n.) Alt. of Operancy
Operancy(n.) The act of operating or working; operation.
Operant(a.) Operative.
Operant(n.) An operative person or thing.
Operate(v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
Operate(v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
Operate(v. i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
Operate(v. i.) 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.
Operate(v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
Operate(v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
Operate(v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
Operated(imp. & p. p.) of Operate
Operating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Operate
Operation(n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operation(n.) The method of working; mode of action.
Operation(n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
Operation(n.) Effect produced; influence.
Operation(n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
Operation(n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Operative(a.) Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.
Operative(a.) Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.
Operative(a.) Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.
Operative(n.) A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.
Operatively(adv.) In an operative manner.
Operator(n.) One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
Operator(n.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
Operator(n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
Operator(n.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
Operous(a.) Operose.
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