operate

Các nghĩa

1. hoạt động, vận hành

   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?

   In this town, the garbage removal staff operate between six o'clock at midnight.

   The police had inside knowledge of how the gang operated.

2. có tác dụng, gây hiệu quả

   To produce an effect.

   intransitive

3. có hiệu lực, phát huy tác dụng (thuốc)

   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

4. tác động đến tinh thần, ảnh hưởng

   To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

   intransitive

   A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.

5. gây ra, tạo ra

   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.

   It is supposed that western Europe was overpopulated and that the crusades operated a beneficial reduction of numbers.

6. phẫu thuật, mổ

   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.

   I'm being operated tomorrow.

Dạng khác

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