Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: operation
IPA transcription: [,ɑpɚ'eɪʃən]
Pronunciations of operation
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: operation
    Meaning: the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
  • Synonyms: operation
    Meaning: a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
  • Synonyms: operation
    Meaning: a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
  • Synonyms: operation
    Meaning: (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"
  • Synonyms: operation, military_operation
    Meaning: activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
  • Synonyms: operation, surgery, surgical_operation, surgical_procedure, surgical_process
    Meaning: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
  • Synonyms: operation, procedure
    Meaning: a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
Usage examples
  • Four had died; three recovered without an operation.
  • They managed at length to agree upon a plan of operation.
  • The operation commences with sunset and finishes with the dawn.
  • No other remedial means are required, much less a surgical operation.
  • Have you ever planned this kind of an operation or do you want me to?"
  • Now the species and nature of the operation is understood from the object.
  • Our past experience has exhibited the operation of this spirit in its full light.
  • For the operation belonging to anything is according to the mode of its substance.
  • This operation repeat till the syrup is clear--put in the fruit when the syrup is cold.
  • As it took many coats of paint to blot out the sign it was rather a expensive operation.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ronald Reagan, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Edward VII, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Pierre Trudeau, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording NonVisual Desktop Access, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording History of the Grand Canyon area, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording SpongeBob SquarePants, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Deepwater Horizon, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording USS Missouri (BB-63), License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Submarine, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–62, License CC BY-SA 4.0