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Operating   /ˈɑpərˌeɪtɪŋ/  /ˈɔpərˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Operate  v. t.  
1.
To produce, as an effect; to cause. "The same cause would operate a diminution of the value of stock."
2.
To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.


Operate  v. i.  (past & past part. operated; pres. part. operating)  
1.
To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
2.
To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), To take appropriate effect on the human system.
3.
To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. "The virtues of private persons operate but on a few." "A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live."
4.
(Surg.) 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.
5.
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. (Brokers' Cant)


adjective
operating  adj.  
1.
Pr. p. of operate; as, the operating conditions of the oxidation pond.
2.
Having an effect or influence.
Synonyms: at work(predicate), in operation, operant.





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"Operating" Quotes from Famous Books



... the light the bird upon which he had just been operating, removed a few scattered feathers, and, with practised ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge
... did not entirely fulfill the purpose of freeing America, France thought they would render themselves more useful, if a naval and land force were sent for co-operating with our troops, and by a longer stay on the coast of the Continent, would give to the states, a fair opportunity of employing all their resources. The expectations are very sanguine at Versailles, and ought to be more so, when that letter shall be received, by which you know Congress engaged ...
— Memoirs of General Lafayette • Lafayette
... there is also an elaborate discussion of Malthus's "Principles of Population," to which both you and I have acknowledged ourselves indebted. The present writer, Mr. George, while admitting the main principle as self-evident and as actually operating in the case of animals and plants, denies that it ever has operated or can operate in the case of man, still less that it has any bearing whatever on the vast social and political questions which have been supported by a reference to ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Marchant
... profound cunning of a propertied class, operating with sinister purpose on the inevitable flunkeyism of a dependent class, per medium of that moral kink in human nature which makes sectarian persecution an act of worship, generated an accordant monster. Hence any L.O.L. convocation, ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... and prepared her for the ceremony. There came a bunch of roses to her room, with a card from Mr. Harding; and these were exquisite, and made her happy, so that, when the doctor arrived, she went almost gaily to the operating-room. ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair


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