Running vs Operate - What's the difference?
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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
Flowing; easy; cursive.
Continuous; keeping along step by step.
* Milton
* Hare
(botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
(medicine) Discharging pus.
(informal) consecutively; in a row
The action of the verb to run .
The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason
That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
(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
* Jonathan Swift
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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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
(-)- to be away two days running
- running handwriting
- a running explanation
- a running conquest
- What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?
- a running vine
- a running sore
Adverb
(-)- Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running .
Noun
(wikipedia running) (en noun)- His running of the business leaves something to be desired.
- Running is good exercise.
- the first running of a still
Derived terms
* in running order * in the running * out of the running * running costs * running dictationVerb
(head)Statistics
*operate
English
Verb
(operat)- The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.
- A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
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.}}
- to operate a machine
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.}}
