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Operant
- adjective - having influence or producing an effect; "many emotional determinants at work"; "an operant conscience"
Operate
- verb - direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
- handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
- happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
- keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
- perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
Opercle
- - Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.
Operons
- noun - a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene
Operose
- adjective - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
Opetide
- - Open time; -- applied to different things: (a) The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening. [Archaic] Nares. (b) The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday wherein marriages were formerly solemnized publicly in churches. [Eng.] (c) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Ophelia
- unknown - Daughter of Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Ophelic
- - Of, pertaining to, or designating, a substance (called ophelic acid) extracted from a plant (Ophelia) of the Gentian family as a bitter yellowish sirup, used in India as a febrifuge and tonic.