Literary notes about operations (AI summary)
The term "operations" is remarkably versatile in literature, serving as a bridge between concrete and abstract processes across various fields. In military and strategic writings, for example, it often refers to the planning and execution of campaigns and maneuvers—ranging from detailed tactical movements ([1],[2],[3]) to overarching strategic designs ([4],[5],[6]). At the same time, authors extend the word’s application to describe systematic procedures in nonmilitary contexts, such as the orderly mechanical functions of the human body ([7],[8]) or even the steps involved in routine culinary undertakings ([9],[10]). This multiplicity of meanings underscores how "operations" can encapsulate both carefully coordinated actions in warfare and the broader idea of methodical processes in nature, society, and technology ([11],[12],[13]).
- Submit to me, however, as early as you can, your plan of operations.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - Having that as a base of operations, troops could have been thrown into the interior to operate against General Bragg's army.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - But Jackson’s operations were essentially offensive, and offensive operations, as was shown at Bull Run, are ill-suited to raw troops.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll - There are large detachments made upon the front of operations, in face of the enemy, to act in concert with the main body in some combined operation.
— from The Art of War by baron de Antoine Henri Jomini - Only those activities emptying themselves directly into the sea of War have to be studied by him who is to conduct its operations.
— from On War by Carl von Clausewitz - In all human undertakings opportuneness is the most important thing, but especially in operations of war.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius - The human body is, in fact, an immensely complicated machine, whose operations involve an enormous number of chemical
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The ordinary operations of the body, indeed, go upon their way mechanically enough.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - In the bath, after the ordinary operations of washing, &c., a feast is made, and the party are often entertained by female singers.
— from The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. - In cookery, white of eggs is employed for clarifying, but in large operations, like sugar-refining, the serum of blood is used.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Thus it seemed that this one hillside illustrated the principle of all the operations of Nature.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - They are ever parting, ever meeting; and the identity or diversity of their tendencies or operations is for the most part unnoticed by us.
— from The Republic by Plato - Unix —— An operating system that supports multi-user and multitasking operations.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
