Operate

Definition

operate /'ɒpǝreÇt / v ၁။ (က) ( fml ) (စက္) အလုပ္ လုပ္သည္၊ လည္ပတ္သည္။ How does the machine operate? ❍ The alarm was not operating. (ခ) (စက္ စသည္) ေမာင္းသည္၊ ဖြင့္သည္။ operate machinery ❍ He operates the lift. ❍ The radio is operated by batteries. ၂။ အာဏာသက္ေရာက္သည္။ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္သည္။ A new timetable is now operating. ❍ The new law operates to our advantage. ၃။ လုပ္ငန္းလုပ္သည္။ လည္ပတ္သည္။ စီမံခန္႔ခြဲသည္။ The company operates from offices in London. ❍ flights operated by Air France ❍ They operate three factories and a huge warehouse. ❍ operating costs/ expenses. ၄။ စစ္ဆင္ သည္။ လႈပ္ရွားသည္။ bombers operating from bases in the North ❍ Police speed traps are operating on this motorway. ၅။ ~ (on sb) (for sth) ခြဲစိတ္ ကုသသည္။ The doctors decided to operate (on her) immediately. ❏ operable /'ɒpǝrǝbl / adj (က) ခြဲစိတ္ကုသ၍ ရႏိုင္ေသာ။ The tumour is operable. (ခ) လည္ပတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ The mill machinery is still operable. ❏ operating system n ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ စက္လည္ပတ္ ေရးစနစ္ ပ႐ိုဂရမ္။ ❏ operating table n ခြဲစိတ္ခန္းသံုး စားပြဲ။ The patient died on the operating table. ❏ operating theatre ( also theatre , esp US operation room) n ခြဲစိတ္ခန္း။

Examples

1. The ventilation equipment was not operating properly.
2. [operate on/at] : Many computers were still operating on a two-digit dating system.
3. The motor operates at very high speeds.
4. You should not operate machinery after taking this medication.
5. My job was to operate the telephone switchboard.
6. The company has been operating in Europe for two years.
7. [operate as] : Richardson’s will in future operate as a subsidiary of AFA.
8. [operate] : All the parties have to operate within the democratic system.
9. [operate on a] : The organization operates on a non-profit basis.
10. The car hire business is operated as a separate company.
11. The government will operate an interest-free loan system.
12. A licence to operate a passenger transport network
13. Flights operate every day from Birmingham.
14. Surgeons had to operate to remove the bullet.
15. [operate on] : The driver of the car was operated on immediately.
16. We may have to operate on your leg.
17. Racism operates at many levels
18. conscious and unconscious.
19. Very different factors were operating in the local and national elections.
20. [operate as] : This law effectively operates as a tax on education.
21. [operate as] : The sales staff usually operate as a team.
22. [operate by doing something] : Carlson operated by gaining people’s confidence and then taking their money.
23. She won’t argue with you – that’s not how she operates.