Operate is valid Scrabble Word

Is operate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is operate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for OPERATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to perform a function
(of a person) control the functioning of (a machine, process, or system)
(of a machine, process, or system) function in a specified manner
be in effect
manage (a business)
(of an organization) be managed in a specified way or from a specified place
(of an armed force) conduct military activities in a specified area
perform a surgical operation
(cause to) work
To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
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.
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
To produce, as an effect; to cause.
To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
perform as expected when applied
handle and cause to function
perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
happen
keep engaged
perform surgery on

Words related to OPERATE

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How to use OPERATE in a sentence

They enter upon untried ground with imperfect knowledge of its responsibilities and dangers, and inadequate conceptions of the materials and powers with which they are to operate.
I found, however, that the higher grades, doubtless from the same causes that operate in other parts of the world, kept aloof from those beneath them.
It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided.
Then the dog, playing with it, as he would with a bone, bit on the rim, just at the time when the needle was set to operate.
I was so very ill before he was born that the doctor wanted to operate and take him away from me long before there was any chance of his living.
You can go with me, as usual, when I operate, but I shall put you on no case but Dr.
The property of the Sumatrans being personal merely, this reason does not operate with them.
These proceedings became immediately, as was naturally to be expected, the subject of complaint by the representative here of that power against whom they would chiefly operate.
The base itself, from which the commercial launching service would operate, might be modeled after a port authority.
What, sir, is the cure for this great evil? Nothing, but to enable the national laws to operate on individuals in the same manner as those of the States do.

This time, Tom was delighted to find that he could operate comfortably at great depths, as well as rise or descend suddenly without ill effect.
So these two enemies of the past are likely to operate as friends to-day.
They tried to operate a law with which they had not become sufficiently familiar to insure success.
The several Instincts, in the brute Creation, do likewise operate and work towards the several Ends which are agreeable to them, by this Divine Energy.
Let me know when you are ready to open your batteries, and give me any suggestions by which you can operate against the enemy.
They think they can make their influence so far felt as to operate favorably upon those who are now under arrest for treason or who may be hereafter arrested for the same offense.
Hence-forward we were to live on the produce of the surrounding country, as there was no basis from which we were to operate.
They operate by the same principle, and they are derived from the very same policy.
However, in spite of all these, the temper of the military did, some way or other, operate.
When we follow this process in its effects, we may conceive something of the intensity of the force with which this system must operate.
These, and other circumstances which might be related, would doubtless operate powerfully upon him to make him believe, that he was a chosen vessel.
In choosing magistrates, in my opinion, it is essentially necessary that local knowledge should operate.
Before proceeding to do so, it may be as well to remark that in each case the several factors operate with different degrees of intensity.
In the cause of education its zeal is enlisted, and its organization is such as to bring a wonderful power to operate upon the community in every section of the South and West.

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