Opera vs Operationalize - What's the difference?
opera | operationalize |
(lb) A theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
(lb) The score for such a work.
A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera , the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
A company dedicated to performing such works.
(lb) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembing an opera.
A collection of work (plural of opus).
To make operational.
(social sciences) To define (a concept) in such a way that it can be practically measured.
* 1956 , Ernest Greenwood, "New Directions in Delinquency Research: A Commentary on a Study by Bernard Lander," Social Service Review , vol. 30, no. 2, p. 152:
*2012 , Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review , issue 399:
*:Vision seems ‘childishly simple’ to us but proves to be fiendishly hard to operationalise , precisely because we are so good at it.
As a verb operationalize is
to make operational.opera
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(wikipedia opera)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* comic opera * grand opera * horse opera * oat opera * opera bouffe * opera comique * opera buffa * opera hat * opera house * opera seria * opera singer * opera slipper * soap opera * space operaSee also
* aria * ballet * masque * melodrama * musical comedy * recitative * singspiel *Anagrams
* ----operationalize
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(operationalization)Alternative forms
* operationaliseVerb
(en-verb)- To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.