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Operated vs Operationalize - What's the difference?

operated | operationalize |

As verbs the difference between operated and operationalize

is that operated is (operate) while operationalize is to make operational.

As an adjective operated

is (in combination) operated by the means specified eg a battery-operated toy.

operated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (operate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (in combination) operated by the means specified e.g. a battery-operated toy

    • Derived terms

    * battery-operated * coin-operated

    operationalize

    English

    (operationalization)

    Alternative forms

    * operationalise

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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:
    • To operationalize a concept is to identify those variables in terms of which the phenomenon represented by the concept can be accurately observed.
  • *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.

    • Derived terms

    * operationalizability * operationalizable * operationalization