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Venture vs Operation - What's the difference?

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Venture is a related term of operation.


As nouns the difference between venture and operation

is that venture is a risky or daring undertaking or journey while operation is operation (method by which a device performs its function).

As a verb venture

is to undertake a risky or daring journey.

venture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
    • My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
  • An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

    Verb

    (ventur)
  • To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • * J. Dryden, Jr.
    • who freights a ship to venture on the seas
  • To risk or offer.
    • to venture funds
    to venture a guess
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
  • to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
  • To put or send on a venture or chance.
    • to venture a horse to the West Indies
  • To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • * Addison
    • A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
  • To say something.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "venture")

    Derived terms

    * venture capital

    Related terms

    * venturesome * venturous

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    operation

    English

    (wikipedia operation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The method by which a device performs its function.
    • It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
  • 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
    • The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
  • * Dryden
    • Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
  • A planned undertaking.
    • The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
    The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
  • A business or organization.
    • We run our operation from a storefront.
    They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
  • (medicine) a surgical procedure.
    • She had an operation to remove her appendix.
  • (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 bards had great operation on the vulgar.

    Synonyms

    * (mathematics) * (mathematics)

    Derived terms

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