All operate synonyms

verb operate

• burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
• click — If something clicks or if you click it, it makes a short, sharp sound.
• compel — If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• contact — Contact involves meeting or communicating with someone, especially regularly.
• contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
• convey — To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone.
• cook — When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
• determine — If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
• direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
• enforce — Compel observance of or compliance with (a law, rule, or obligation).
• exert — Apply or bring to bear (a force, influence, or quality).
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• fulfill — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
• hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• hum — to make a low, continuous, droning sound.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• lift — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
• ordain — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
• percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
• proceed — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
• progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
• react — to act in response to an agent or influence: How did the audience react to the speech?
• revolve — to move in a circular or curving course or orbit: The earth revolves around the sun.
• roll — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
• spin — to make (yarn) by drawing out, twisting, and winding fibers: Pioneer women spun yarn on spinning wheels.
• tick — a score or account.
• turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• act on — to regulate one's behaviour in accordance with (advice, information, etc)
• bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
• carry on — If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.
• manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
• administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
• handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
• pilot — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
• ply — British Dialect. to bend, fold, or mold.
• steer — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
• wield — to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating.
• call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
• run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
• trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
• organise — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
• organize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
• carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
• explore — Travel in or through (an unfamiliar country or area) in order to learn about or familiarize oneself with it.
• set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• amputate — To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.