Operation vs Usage - What's the difference?
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The method by which a device performs its function.
The method or practice by which actions are done.
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
* John Locke
* Dryden
A planned undertaking.
A business or organization.
(medicine) a surgical procedure.
(computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
(military) a military campaign (e.g. )
(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
* Fuller
The manner or the amount of using; use
Habit or accepted practice
(lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
# Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
# Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.
As nouns the difference between operation and usage
is that operation is the method by which a device performs its function while usage is the manner or the amount of using; use.operation
English
(wikipedia operation)Noun
(en noun)- It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
- The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
- Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
- The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
- The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
- We run our operation from a storefront.
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
- She had an operation to remove her appendix.
- The bards had great operation on the vulgar.