All operate synonyms
op·er·ate
O o verb operate
- cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- excise — A tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on licenses granted for certain activities.
- remove — to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
- transplant — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
- treat — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- open up — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
- run — execution
- activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
- go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- use — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- perform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- achieve — If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
- complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
- conduct — When you conduct an activity or task, you organize it and carry it out.
- do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- engage — Occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention).
- keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- move — to pass from one place or position to another.
- produce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- serve — to act as a servant.
- take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- transport — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- accomplish — If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.
- advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- behave — The way that you behave is the way that you do and say things, and the things that you do and say.
- bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.