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Operate
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
(2):
(v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
(3):
(v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
(4):
(v. i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
(5):
(v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
(6):
(v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
(7):
(v. i.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Operate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/operate.html. 1828.
