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operate
Verb
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If you operate a machine, you control it.
Everyone on board is able to operate the ship.
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If a machine operates, it works.
Does the device operate independently or does it need to connect to other devices?
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If organizations or people operate, they work or do business.
The business will continue to operate under the same name.
The school operates a system for selling used textbooks.
It's really hard to operate with the kids running around.
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If a doctor operates, he cuts into a client's body to fix it.
at
Preposition
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Used to describe where something is, or when saying something's position
I am at home.
Let's meet at the pub!
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The time at which something happened or will happen
Breakfast is at 9 o'clock.
At 5pm we went home.
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Indicating something's state
At half price!
Water boils at high temperatures.
at
Symbol
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The @ symbol, used to replace at
support@microsoft.com is an email address.
Apples @ £1.50 per kilogram.
no
Adverb
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used to disagree or refuse (not accept).
No, I do not fish.
I'm I ready? No, I still have some things to do first.
no
Determinative
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Not any.
There is no water left.
No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
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Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
No smoking
There's no stopping her once she gets going.
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Not; not properly, not really; not fully.
My mother's no fool.
Working nine to five every day is no life.
load
Noun
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A load is something carried, often something heavy.
The truck arrived with a load of dog food.
You've got quite a load. Let me help you carry it.
The ship won't leave until it has a full load of oil.
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Loads/a load of something is a lot of it.
We've had a load of problems ever since we got the new stuff.
It costs loads of money.
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Your load is how much work you have.
We hired another person to spread the load a bit more.
Teachers are asking for a lower teaching load.
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Load is the amount electrical power produced.
load
Verb
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If you load mathx/math on mathy/math, you put mathx/math on mathy/math to be carried. Usually there is a lot of mathx/math, and/or it is heavy.
We loaded the boxes on the truck and set off for Vancouver.
After loading up the horses, we got on and headed north.
The waiter loaded all the food onto a tray and carried it out.
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If you load a machine, you put in supplies that the machine uses.
He loaded the gun, brought it up, and shot the deer in one continuous motion.
All the software has been loaded onto the computer.