To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
Could someone explain how this meeting operates?
To produce an effect.
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.
To bring about as an effect; to cause.
Strictures upon style, which are for the most part good, but time has operated a change in many respects even since he wrote.
From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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