Operated

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ˈɑpəɹeɪtɪd/

Definitions

1. Being managed or executing tasks through the involvement of agents or mechanisms
2. Engaged in the control or function of performing designated processes through specific management
3. Managed or controlled a device or system to make it work properly ; conducted a medical procedure involving surgical techniques to treat a condition

Etymology: "Operated" is the past tense of "operate," which comes from Latin "operatus," the past participle of "operor," meaning "to work, labor, toil, or have effect." That Latin verb grew from "opus," "work," a word tied to the same ancient root that gave English words like "operation" and "opera" in its musical sense of a large collaborative work. The core idea of labour carried into English, where the word first described people working at a task. The "-ate" ending is the verb-forming suffix that Latin used to turn nouns and participles into action words, and English inherited that pattern. Over time, "operate" moved from the sense of laboring at a job to the sense of making something function, and eventually to the idea of a machine or system carrying out its work, which is the sense captured in "being managed or executing tasks through agents or mechanisms."

Synonyms: functioned, managed, controlled

Antonyms: dismantled, stopped