Usually means: Function or work in action.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. operate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. operate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. operate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. operate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. operate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Operate, operate: Wordnik
  7. operate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. operate: Wiktionary
  9. operate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. operate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. operate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. operate: Dictionary.com
  13. operate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. operate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Operate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Operate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. operate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. operate: Rhymezone
  19. operate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. operate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. operate: Free Dictionary
  22. operate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. operate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. operate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. operate: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. operate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. operate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. operate: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce an effect.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
verb:  (intransitive) To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
verb:  (transitive) To bring about as an effect; to cause.
verb:  (medicine, transitive or intransitive) 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.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
verb:  (transitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

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