Verb

(en verb)

To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.

"Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.

(intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.

He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy .

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At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.

(computing) to install, test and implement a computer system or application.

The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.

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Verb

(operat)

(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.

* Atterbury

The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.

* Jonathan Swift

A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.

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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(transitive, or, intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

to operate a machine

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}