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How to pronounce “operate”
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Pronunciation guide for operate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of operate with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Free-Flying Space Robots
to operate on the space station.
- Definition summary
- (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce operate
Free-Flying Space Robots
to operate on the space station.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “operate”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- (intransitive) To produce an effect.
- (transitive) To bring about as an effect; to cause.
- (medicine, transitive or intransitive) 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.
- (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- (transitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
- [Adjective]
- plural of operata
Practice Nearby Words
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