Crossword-Solution: OPERATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Operation | n. | The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. |
| Operation | n. | The method of working; mode of action. |
| Operation | n. | That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations. |
| Operation | n. | Effect produced; influence. |
| Operation | n. | Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. |
| Operation | n. | Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OPERATION (5)
But for these, the slave would be forced up to the wildest desperation; and woe betide the slaveholder, the day he ventures to remove or hinder the operation of those conductors! I warn him that, in such an event, a spirit will go forth in their midst, more to be dreaded than the most appalling earthquake.
Flag state--The nation in which a ship is registered and which holds legal jurisdiction over operation of the ship, whether at home or abroad.
Passing from the profoundest sleep to the most alert wakefulness with the same ease that had accompanied the reverse operation, he looked at his watch, found that the hour-hand had shifted again, put on his hat, took the lamb in his arms, and carried it into the darkness.
Let me ask as your friend, as one having charge, under Providence, of your life and physical well being, hath all the operation of this disorder been fairly laid open and recounted to me?” “How can you question it?” asked the minister.
The only offensive operation men ventured upon after that night was the preparation of mines and pitfalls, and even in that their energies were frantic and spasmodic.
Quotes with OPERATION (3)
The type of the Inevitable is death. I remember well that in my youth I believed that I was certainly exempt from its operation. First when my daughter died, next when you were wounded, I knew that I was mortal; and now I regard those years as wasted, as unproductive, in which I was not aware that my death was certain, nay, momently possible. I can now appraise at a glance those who have not yet foreseen their death. I know them for the children they are. They think that by e…
If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the…
Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his mind was in much the same state that you would be in, dear reader, if you were operated upon for appendicitis by a well-meaning, boldly enterprising, but rather over-worked and under-paid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed clerk of high principles but intemperate habits, — that is to say, it was in a thorough mess.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1947–2023).