operate
Perform a surgery
Operate means to function or to cause something to function.
Machines operate when they run properly; surgeons operate when they perform medical procedures; businesses operate when they conduct their affairs.
The elevator operates on a pulley system.
She operates a small bakery downtown.
To operate on someone is to perform surgery.
In military and covert contexts, operatives operate in the field, carrying out missions or gathering intelligence.
Manner of behaving
- performExecute or present
- implementTool or enact
- carryoutFood ordered for elsewhere
- administerManage or dispense
coordinate · orchestrate · enact · undertake · accomplish · mission · covertly · clandestinely
Physician who operates
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
- sutureMedical wound closure
theater · patient · sterile · laparotomy · appendectomy · transplant · hemostasis · clamps
Organizational oversight and control
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- directionWay something faces
- controlAuthority to direct
governance · coordination · logistics · stewardship · regulation · leadership · delegation · franchise
Lifter or wader
- forkliftPowered pallet-hoisting vehicle
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- latheRotating shaping machine
drill · press · conveyor · tractor · combine · harvester · grinder · welder
Connected parts forming whole
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
- softwarePrograms directing computer operations
- algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure
- automationSelf-operating system design
process · routine · efficiently · smoothly · malfunction · capacity · parameters · optimally
conduct
Manner of behaving
administer · coordinate · orchestrate · enact · undertake · accomplish · mission · covertly · clandestinely · undercover
surgeon
Physician who operates
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
suture · theater · patient · sterile · laparotomy · appendectomy · transplant · hemostasis · clamps · gauze
administration
Organizational oversight and control
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- directionWay something faces
control · governance · coordination · logistics · stewardship · regulation · leadership · delegation · franchise · headquarters
crane
Lifter or wader
- forkliftPowered pallet-hoisting vehicle
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
lathe · drill · press · conveyor · tractor · combine · harvester · grinder · welder · hoist
system
Connected parts forming whole
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
- softwarePrograms directing computer operations
- algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure
automation · process · routine · efficiently · smoothly · malfunction · capacity · parameters · optimally · standby
- useuse, utilize, employ, apply, usage
- medical verbsdiagnose, treat, prescribe, cure, heal
- frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, penny-pinching, economize
- Business Verbsdeal, trade, negotiate, bargain, transact
- process verbscreate, produce, make, build, construct
- equipment actionsinstall, connect, disconnect, mount, attach
operatemalfunction
Failure to operate properly
fail · break down · stop · stall · crash
- operating roomSurgical procedure venue
- base of operationsCentral location for activities
- operating systemsCore device management software
- train operatorsThose driving locomotives
- operating tableSurgical procedure surface
- cleanup operationsSystematic removal of debris
operation, cooperation, operator, cooperative, cooperate, operating, operative, operations, operated