operate

1. (intransitive, transitive)To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

   Could someone explain how this meeting operates?

   In this town, the garbage removal staff operate between six o'clock at midnight.

   рабо́татьrabótatʹ

   працюва́тиpracjuváty

2. (intransitive)To produce an effect.

3. To produce an effect.

   (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.

4. (intransitive)To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

   ока́зывать влия́ниеokázyvatʹ vlijánije, влия́тьvlijátʹ

5. (transitive)To bring about as an effect; to cause.

   вызыва́тьvyzyvátʹ

   handle and cause to function

6. (intransitive, transitive)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.

   The surgeon had to operate on her heart.

   I'm being operated tomorrow.

   operieren

   опери́роватьoperírovatʹ

   оперува́тиoperuváty

7. (intransitive, transitive)To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

   спекули́роватьspekulírovatʹ

8. (transitive)To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

   to operate a machine

   to operate a system

   betreiben, bedienen

   управля́тьupravljátʹ, эксплуати́роватьekspluatírovatʹ, опери́роватьoperírovatʹ

   керува́тиkeruváty

1. What operating system do you use?

   Яку ти використовуєш операційну систему?

   ruКакой операционной системой вы пользуетесь?

   deWelches Betriebssystem verwendest du?

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2. How do you operate this machine?

   deWie bedient man diese Maschine?

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3. Carry her to the operating room.

   deBringen Sie sie in den Operationssaal.

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4. Tom died on the operating table.

   ruТом умер на операционном столе.

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5. They're going to operate on Tom.

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