Operate

v. act, function; manage, use, activate; perform surgery

Verb
1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
(synonym) run
(hypernym) direct
(hyponym) financier
(derivation) operation
2. perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
(synonym) function, work, go, run
(hyponym) double
(verb-group) run
(derivation) operation, functioning, performance
3. handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
(synonym) control
(hypernym) manipulate
(hyponym) synchronize, synchronise
(verb-group) master, control
(derivation) operation
4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
(synonym) manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre
(hypernym) move, go
(hyponym) jockey
(derivation) operation, military operation
5. happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
(hypernym) happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
(derivation) process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
6. keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
(synonym) engage, mesh, lock
(hypernym) move, displace
(hyponym) throw, flip, switch
(derivation) operation
7. perform surgery on; "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"
(synonym) operate on
(hypernym) treat, care for
(hyponym) sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
(derivation) operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
(classification) medicine, practice of medicine

v. carry out, make, produce, operate, act, work, do, perform; run

adj. diapered, embossed, tooled

v. tend; work, operate

(v. t.)
To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
  

(v. t.)
To produce, as an effect; to cause.
  

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

(v. i.)
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.
  

(v. i.)
To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
  

(v. i.)
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  

(v. i.)
To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.