Activity vs Operate - What's the difference?
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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.
Something done as an action or a movement.
Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
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(transitive, or, intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
(transitive, or, 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.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
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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.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
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, title= (transitive, or, intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
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As a noun activity
is the state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.As a verb operate is
(transitive|or|intransitive) to perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.activity
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(wikipedia activity)Noun
(activities)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities , ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "activity": increased, decreased, high, low, volcanic, seismic, eruptive, intellectual, physical, mental, spiritual, muscular, cerebral, favorite, recreational, practical, cultural, artistic, literary, musical, political, diplomatic, military, domestic, voluntary, missionary, chemical, optical, productive, reproductive, industrial, commercial, etc.Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* rest * passivityDerived terms
* radioactivityExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsoperate
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Verb
(operat)- The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.
- A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
Rereading Darwin, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
- to operate a machine
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
