operate

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒpəɹeɪt/    美 /ˈɑpəɹeɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. intransitive,transitive
    — Could someone explain how this meeting operates?
  2. To produce an effect. intransitive
    — We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
  3. To produce an effect.; To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system. intransitive
    — The drug operates by facilitating the negative neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), resulting in the blocking of neural long-term potentiation.
  4. To produce an effect.; To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. intransitive
    — The Virtues of private Perſons, how Bright and Exemplary ſoever, operate but on Few; on thoſe only who are near enough to obſerve, and inclin'd to imitate them: their ſphere of Action is narrow, and their Influence is confin'd to it.
  5. To bring about as an effect; to cause. transitive
    — Strictures upon style, which are for the most part good, but time has operated a change in many respects even since he wrote.
  6. 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. intransitive,transitive
    — The surgeon had to operate on her heart.
  7. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. intransitive,transitive
  8. To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work. transitive
    — to operate a machine

词形变化

operates present,singular,third-person operating participle,present operated participle,past operated past

词汇关系

衍生词
battery-operated chief operating officer coin-operated inter-operate interoperate misoperate operatable operatee operating concept operating cycle operating depth operating expense operating loss operating room operating system operating table operating theatre operating theater operating time overoperate power-operated reoperate teleoperate underoperate
相关词
cooperate co-operate opera operable operand operant operation operational operative operator opus

词源

From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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