Difference between Operate and Run

What is the difference between Operate and Run?

Operate as a verb is to perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. while Run as a verb is to move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.

Operate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act. To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system. To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence. To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. To produce, as an effect; to cause. To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

Example sentence: Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.

Run

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In a liquid state; melted; molten.Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out".)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of running.The route taken while running.A flow of liquid; a leak.A small creek or part thereof.The amount of something made.The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.A production quantity in a factory.A pace faster than a walk.A fast gallop.An interval of distance or time, a period marked by a continuing trend.A series of tries in a game that were successful.A regular trip or route.A standard or unexceptional group or category.An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.An errand or the journey associated with an errand.A pleasure trip.A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.A point scored in baseball and cricket.A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.Any sudden large demand for something.Unrestricted use of an area.Stockings with a run in them (sense 24) A line of knit stitches that has unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.horizontal dimension of a slope.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.To move or spread quickly.To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.To control or manage, be in charge of.Of a liquid, to flow.Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.To extend in space or through a range of possibilities (often with a measure phrase).To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).To make something extend in space.Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.To make a machine operate.To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.To compete in a race.To be a candidate in an election.To make run in a race or an election.To be offered in one of the media.To print or broadcast in the media.To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion , to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).To go through without stopping, usually illegally.To transport someone or something.To smuggle illegal goods.To cost a large amount of money.Of fish, to migrate for spawning.To carry a football down the field.Of stitches, to unravel.To flee away from a danger or towards help.To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.To control or have precedence in a card game.To run.

Example sentence: We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

We hope you now know whether to use Operate or Run in your sentence.

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