operate Meaning️️.️️❤️️︎ What does operate mean?

operate

Verb

1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.;
- "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
2. perform as expected when applied;
- "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"
- "Does this old car still run well?"
- "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
3. handle and cause to function;
- "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"
- "control the lever"
4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
5. happen;
- "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
6. keep engaged;
- "engaged the gears"
7. perform surgery on;
- "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"

Not that the machine is out of order, but that I have not learned to operate it.
The only way to do this was to operate.
State superintendence of fisheries shall operate under the principle of unified leadership and decentralized administration.
The doctor decided to operate at once.
We operate as an advisory service for schools.
This lathe is easy to operate.
He is certain that this TV set will operate on batteries.
The medicine will quickly operate on such patients.
Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently.
How do accounting records operate?
They now own and operate a farm 50 miles south of Rochester.
This boat has a good deck layout making everything easy to operate.
You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not to operate.
This freed the Austrian army to operate against the French.
Trains start at 11.00 and an hourly service will operate until 16.00.
Nuclear plants are expensive to build, though cheap to operate.
But your partners will have no voice in how you operate your company.
The weather has brought such a demand for beer that one brewery will operate over the weekend.
The world of work doesn't operate that way.
Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
I thought it was unethical for doctors to operate upon their wives.
It gained a licence to operate as a bank from the Bank of England in 1981.

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A woman walks into a pet shop and sees a cute little dog. She asks the shopkeeper, "Does your dog bite?"
The shopkeeper says, "No, my dog does not bit."
The woman tries to pet the dog and the dog bites her.
"Ouch!" She says, "I thought you said your dog does not bite!"
The shopkeeper replies, "That is not my dog!"
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