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Running vs Operate - What's the difference?

running | operate |

As verbs the difference between running and operate

is that running is while operate is (transitive|or|intransitive) to perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

As an adjective running

is moving or advancing by running.

As an adverb running

is (informal) consecutively; in a row.

As a noun running

is the action of the verb to run .

running

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Moving or advancing by running.
  • # Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
  • successive; one following the other without break or intervention
  • to be away two days running
  • Flowing; easy; cursive.
  • running handwriting
  • Continuous; keeping along step by step.
  • a running explanation
  • * Milton
  • a running conquest
  • * Hare
  • What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
  • (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
  • a running vine
  • (medicine) Discharging pus.
  • a running sore

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal) consecutively; in a row
  • Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running .

    Noun

    (wikipedia running) (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to run .
  • His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
  • The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
  • Running is good exercise.
  • That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
  • the first running of a still
  • The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
  • Derived terms

    * in running order * in the running * out of the running * running costs * running dictation

    Verb

    (head)
  • Statistics

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    operate

    English

    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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert L. Dorit, volume=100, issue=1, page=23
  • , magazine= , title= 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.}}
  • (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.}}

    References

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