Operate

·vt To produce, as an effect; to Cause.

II. Operate ·vi To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

III. Operate ·vi To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

IV. Operate ·vi To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to Act.

V. Operate ·vt To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to Work; as, to operate a machine.

VI. Operate ·vi To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

VII. Operate ·vi 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.