Operate

['ɒpəreɪt] or ['ɑpə'ret]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) happen; 'What is going on in the minds of the people?'.

(verb.) handle and cause to function; 'do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol'; 'control the lever'.

(verb.) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; 'She is running a relief operation in the Sudan'.

錄入:普勒斯顿--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

(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.

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

(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.

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

(v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.

(v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

錄入:梅林达

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [Followed by on or upon.] Act, work, have effect, have influence.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Act, work, produce, effect, produce_an_effect, have_effect

ANT:Cease, rest, fail, misoperate

校對:奥菲莉娅

解釋/意思:

v.i. to work: to exert strength: to produce any effect: to exert moral power: (med.) to take effect upon the human system: (surg.) to perform some unusual act upon the body with the hand or an instrument.—v.t. to effect: to produce by agency.—n. Operam′eter an instrument for indicating the number of movements made by a part of a machine.—adj. Op′erant operative.—n. an operator.—n. Operā′tion art or process of operating or of being at work: that which is done or carried out: agency: influence: method of working: action or movements: surgical performance.—adj. Op′erātive having the power of operating or acting: exerting force: producing effects: efficacious.—n. a workman in a manufactory: a labourer.—adv. Op′erātively.—ns. Op′erātiveness; Op′erātor one who or that which operates or produces an effect: (math.) a letter &c. signifying an operation to be performed.

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