Crossword clues for operated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Operate \Op"er*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Operated; p. pr. & vb. n. Operating.] [L. operatus, p. p. of operari to work, fr. opus, operis, work, labor; akin to Skr. apas, and also to G. ["u]ben to exercise, OHG. uoben, Icel. [ae]fa. Cf. Inure, Maneuver, Ure.]
To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
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To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.
--Atterbury.A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
--Swift. (Surg.) 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.
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. [Brokers' Cant]
Wiktionary
(context in combination English) operated by the means specified e.g. a battery-operated toy v
(en-past of: operate)
Usage examples of "operated".
Except for the far-flung secret organization which X operated through Harvey Bates, the Agent would probably never have known that a Gman named Jackson was getting tips in regard to scheduled white-cross killings.
The one which operated on the Colesberg line--which was the more vital of the two, as a rapid advance of the Boers upon that line would have threatened the precious Cape Town to Kimberley connection--consisted almost entirely of mounted troops, and was under the command of the same General French who had won the battle of Elandslaagte.
So Bould, who had never operated a camera before, rented one and manned it himself.
The stable operated the stage and carried the mails between Carmel and Monterey.
The light in his eyes, which would have done a checkmating chessplayer justice, was a far more accurate indicator of how he operated.
Maybe they were waiting to make sure the recently arrived craft was crewed by humans or thranx, and was not a captured vessel being operated by the cunning AAnn to lead them into exposing themselves.
Although the INC operated out of Iraqi Kurdistan until 1996, with ample funding and with ostensible air cover from the United States, it was never able to attract more than a few hundred full-time followers and never garnered significant defections from the Iraqi armed forces--let alone started a popular revolt.
Since all such subsidiary Distorters operated through the main matrix, the control room must be first.
For this, too, Robbie envisioned mechanical aid, a computer controlled voice simulator that could be operated so long as Rainey had any voluntary movement remaining, even flexing her brow.
Teuber recounted many stories told by his parents, pioneer German ethnologists who founded and operated the first research station devoted to chimpanzee behavior on Tenerife in the Canary Islands early in the second decade of this century.
But the exiles had for four years operated on the assumption that the Templars could eavesdrop on any conversation in or near the flyers they had so considerately placed at the disposal of those who were their unwilling guests.
Harold Kenmore had been employed as a research scientist in a government-sponsored and -operated project in a facility called Gamebird by the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century.
A few months later he signed on as a partner in a pawn business that operated on the service road alongside the interstates, near the Blue Beacon Truck Wash.
Unlike the other groups in this book, the civil libertarians have operated very much in the open, more or less right in the public hurly-burly.
Ruby Archuleta, a lovely middle-aged woman who owned and operated a body shop and plumbing business just off the north--south highway between Milagro and Dona Luz in the Strawberry Mesa area.