| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | aa.perey'shahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A business especially one run on a large scale. |
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| Examples | "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations" |
| Broader | business activity, commercial activity |
| Verbs | operate |
| Meaning | A planned activity involving many people performing various actions. |
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| Examples | "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations" |
| Narrower | rescue operation; undercover operation |
| Broader | activity |
| Meaning | A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work. |
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| Examples | "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" |
| Synonyms | procedure |
| Broader | work |
| Adjectives | operational |
| Verbs | operate |
| Meaning | The state of being in effect or being operative. |
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| Examples | "that rule is no longer in operation" |
| Narrower | commission; running |
| Broader | action, activity, activeness |
| Verbs | operate |
| Meaning | A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments. Performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body. |
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| Examples | "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available" |
| Synonyms | surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
| Category of | freeze; suction; decorticate; ablate; hypophysectomize, hypophysectomise; trepan |
| Category | surgery |
| Parts | hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia; incision, section, surgical incision; suturing |
| Narrower | ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision; amputation; angioplasty; arthroplasty; arthroscopy; brain surgery; castration; cautery, cauterization, cauterisation; chemosurgery; craniotomy; cryosurgery; curettage, curettement; debridement; decortication; dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C; electrosurgery; enterostomy, enterotomy; enucleation; wrong-site surgery; evisceration; exenteration; fenestration; gastrectomy; gastroenterostomy; gastrostomy; heart surgery; hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy; hysterotomy; implantation; iridectomy; iridotomy; intestinal bypass; jejunostomy; major surgery; microsurgery; minor surgery; myotomy; myringectomy; myringoplasty; myringotomy; neurosurgery; orchiopexy; osteotomy; ostomy; palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP; phlebectomy; photocoagulation; plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty; polypectomy; resection; rhinotomy; rhizotomy; sex-change operation, transsexual surgery; Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation; sterilization, sterilisation; strabotomy; taxis; tracheostomy, tracheotomy; transplant, transplantation, organ transplant; trephination; tympanoplasty; uranoplasty; vasovasostomy; vivisection |
| Broader | medical procedure |
| Adjectives | operative |
| Verbs | operate |
| Meaning | Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign). |
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| Examples | "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" |
| Synonyms | military operation |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Narrower | combined operation; maneuver, manoeuvre, simulated military operation; campaign, military campaign; naval campaign; mission, military mission; support, reinforcement, reenforcement; attack, onslaught, onset, onrush; offense, offence, offensive; peacekeeping, peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation; amphibious operation; information gathering; psychological operation, psyop; covert operation; Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne, Argonne Forest, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation; Operation Desert Storm |
| Broader | activity |
| Verbs | operate |
| Meaning | (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction). |
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| Examples | "it can perform millions of operations per second" |
| Category | computer science, computing |
| Narrower | access, memory access; asynchronous operation; auxiliary operation, off-line operation; boolean operation, binary operation, binary arithmetic operation; computer operation, machine operation; concurrent operation; control operation, control function; dyadic operation; fixed-cycle operation; logic operation, logical operation; monadic operation, unary operation; multiplex operation; parallel operation, simultaneous operation; printing operation; search, lookup; serial operation, sequential operation, consecutive operation; sort, sorting; synchronous operation; threshold operation |
| Broader | data processing |
| Meaning | Process or manner of functioning or operating. |
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| Examples | "the power of its engine determine its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds" |
| Synonyms | functioning, performance |
| Broader | process |
| Verbs | operate |
| Meaning | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods. |
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| Examples | "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic" |
| Synonyms | mathematical process, mathematical operation |
| Category | mathematics, math, maths |
| Narrower | permutation; combination; differentiation; maximization; integration; exponentiation, involution; arithmetic operation; matrix operation; construction; relaxation, relaxation method |
| Broader | calculation, computation, computing |
| Meaning | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity. An operation that affects mental contents. |
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| Examples | "the cognitive operation of remembering" |
| Synonyms | process, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation |
| Category | psychology, psychological science |
| Narrower | basic cognitive process; higher cognitive process |
| Broader | cognition, knowledge, noesis |
| Verbs | operate |
| Meaning | The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.). |
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| Examples | "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride" |
| Category | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business |
| Broader | activity |
| Verbs | operate; operate; operate |