the Fourth Week of Advent
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Dictionaries
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.
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Operate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/operate.html. 1828.
