Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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operate

UK /ˈɒpəɹeɪt/ · US /ˈɑpəɹeɪt/ verb

Forms operates operating operated

  1. verb (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. “Could someone explain how this meeting operates?”
  2. verb (intransitive) To produce an effect.
  3. verb (intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
  4. verb (intransitive) To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  5. verb (transitive) To bring about as an effect; to cause.
  6. verb (medicine, transitive or intransitive) 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. “The surgeon had to operate on her heart.”
  7. verb (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  8. verb (transitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work. “to operate a machine”

Synonyms

run function work go control manoeuver maneuver manoeuvre engage mesh lock operate on

Etymology

From Latin operātus, perfect passive participle of operor (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
  2. verb To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
  3. verb To produce, as an effect; to cause.
  4. verb To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

Etymology [L. operatus, p.p. of operari to work, fr. opus, operis, work, labor; akin to Skr. apas, and also to G. üben to exercise, OHG. uoben, Icel. . Cf. Inure, Maneuver, Ure.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “operate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “operate” (best matches first).