2. Adjective. (context: in combination) operated by the means specified e.g. a battery-operated toy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Operated
1. operate [v] - See also: operate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operated
Literary usage of Operated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1903)
"From it we learn that the per cent of farms in Illinois operated by owners, ...
The number operated by owners has increased during the same period one per ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"They were produced by a cause which operated on the material of the rock ...
While the cause of the pressure and the manner in which it had operated to ..."
3. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1892)
"CENTRAL STATIONS operated BY WATE[l POWER. BY GEO. A. REDMAN, SUPERINTENDENT
BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY, ROCHESTER, NY Mr. President and Gentlemen : The ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"... and this railroad was being at the time used and operated as a highway of
interstate commerce, he assumed the risk and danger of so using the tracks; ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"The Western Union Telegraph Company had constructed prior thereto, and had since
maintained and operated, n. line of telegraph poles and wires through the ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"TABLE III Results in patients operated on over periods of three years 510 ...
In 1902, 24 patients were operated on. Of those operated upon more than 1 1 ..."
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