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(transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Source Word

operate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɒpəɹeɪt/

Verb

intransitive transitive

(transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

Japanese Meaning

仕事や労働を遂行する、作業を行う / 物理的または機械的な力や強さを発揮する / 行動する、作用する

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They operate the old printing press every morning to meet deadlines.

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彼らは締め切りに間に合わせるために毎朝古い印刷機を操作する。

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Sense（1）

(transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

Could someone explain how this meeting operates?

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Sense（2）

(transitive or 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.

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Sense（3）

(transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

The Virtues of private Perſons, how Bright and Exemplary ſoever, operate but on Few; on thoſe only who are near enough to obſerve, and inclin'd to imitate them: their ſphere of Action is narrow, and their Influence is confin'd to it.

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Sense（4）

(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.

The surgeon had to operate on her heart.

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Sense（5）

(transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

Sense（6）

(transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

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