Synonym: act, carry on, conduct, function, handle, manage, perform, run, work. Similar words: cooperate, cooperate with, operator, operating, operation, cooperative, AND operation, tolerate. Meaning: ['ɑpəreɪt /'ɒp-] 
v. 1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. 2. perform as expected when applied 3. handle and cause to function 4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense 5. happen 6. keep engaged 7. perform surgery on.
v. 1. direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. 2. perform as expected when applied 3. handle and cause to function 4. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense 5. happen 6. keep engaged 7. perform surgery on. 
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61 Ceiling and wall lights can operate independently.
62 My mother taught me how to operate the washing machine.
63 We managed to operate a skeleton bus service during the strike.
64 The video provides instruction on how to operate the computer.
65 The unit is comparatively easy to install and cheap to operate.
66 Borusa had no wish to become president[Sentence dictionary], instead preferring to operate as an eminence grise behind the scenes.
67 Army units can only operate if they have sufficient backup.
68 All relevant departments will co - operate to publicise this MPF system which affects the general public.
69 The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.
70 The president has to operate within an inert political system.
71 He'd like to see a fundamental reappraisal of the way unions operate.
72 You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not to operate.
73 The controls are really easy to operate, so you don't have to be an Einstein to use it.
74 The sophisticated avionics enable the helicopter to operate at night.
75 Many companies operate regular job appraisals, often on an annual basis.
76 The city would operate on a more human scale if cars were banned from the centre.
77 The instruction manual that came with my new computer wasn't very enlightening about how to operate it.
78 They now own and operate a farm 50 miles south of Rochester.
79 For safety reasons, children should not operate the machine unsupervised.
80 For his own safety, he has to operate under a false name/an alias.
81 The new drug began to operate not long after it is taken.
82 Most companies operate in conditions that are to a greater or lesser extent competitive.
83 The doctors will operate if necessary, but it may not come to that.
84 The doctors will operate if it proves necessary-but it may not come to that.
85 They plan to operate from a new office in Edinburgh.
86 Not that the machine is out of order, but that I have not learned to operate it.
87 The disease was too far advanced for doctors to operate.
88 The weather has brought such a demand for beer that one brewery will operate over the weekend.
89 Genes operate together in determining the characteristics of an individual organism .
90 The bus is designed to operate in all weather conditions.
More similar words: cooperate, cooperate with, operator, operating, operation, cooperative, AND operation, tolerate, desperate, generate, moderate, inveterate, desperately, accelerate, deliberately, opera, rate, refrigerator, consideration, generation gap, accurate, at any rate, decorate, strategy, corporate, strategic, elaborate, integrate, frustrate, accurately.