Operates

Examples

• The cylinder stops, and current operates the sluggish press-magnet, causing its armature to be attracted, thus lifting the platen and its projecting arm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Where they remark the resemblance, it operates after the manner of a relation, by producing a connexion of ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There is a definite way of understanding the situations in which the habit operates. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In this machine a device is also arranged which operates to stop the machine at once if any thread is broken. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The bounty upon the exportation of corn necessarily operates exactly in the same way as this absurd policy of Spain and Portugal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Seats are provided on axle of carriage for two gunners in transportation, one of whom operates the road brake. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It operates to exclude recognition of everything except what squares up with the fixed end in view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The electro-magnetic telephone operates on an entirely different principle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is rather interesting to note that Chicago operates many more electric pleasure cars than New York, while New York does far more of its business by means of the electric vehicle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One invention engenders another, or co-operates with another. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is the over-excitement of a too active mind which operates thus upon our nerves, said I, trying to identify myself with his mental sufferings. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In place of these, he was equipped with a sword of lath, resembling that with which Harlequin operates his wonders upon the modern stage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Thus, with modern appliances, the housewife operates them at high, medium or low to suit her desires. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We have now to make explicit the differences in the spirit, material, and method of education as it operates in different types of community life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The lower view shows a suction dredge, which operates on soft mud or sands, pumping the discharge through the pipe seen at the left of the illustration. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The compressed air conveyed to the drill in the tunnel or mine not only operates the drill, but helps to ventilate the tunnel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This operates, then, as a tax for the maintenance of the poor. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It operates from any light socket and consumes but a very small amount of current, much less than is consumed by a toaster. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As the custom depends not upon any deliberation, it operates immediately, without allowing any time for reflection. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• From the view of these causes we may derive a new distinction betwixt the quality that operates, and the subject on which it is placed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But though this circumstance operates on both these passions, it has a much greater influence on vanity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The custom operates before we have time for reflection. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is thus that a tax upon the necessaries of life operates exactly in the same manner as a direct tax upon the wages of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The latter is a direct guide to action; the former operates indirectly through the enlightenment it supplies as to ends and means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The paper feed is shown at the end of the press-lever, and consists of a push dog, or pawl, which operates to urge the paper forward as the press-lever descends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The larger the piston and the faster it works, the greater is the quantity of water raised at each stroke, and the stronger must be the engine which operates the pump. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The modern phonograph operates in a precisely similar way, the only difference being in details of refinement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It operates, that is to say, through intelligence, and not through conformity to orders externally imposed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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