Implement and Operate

implement

Apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design.
- usage: "implement a procedure"
Ensure observance of laws and rules.
- usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
- synonyms: enforce, apply
Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue.
- usage: "Did he go through with the treatment"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"
- synonyms: follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, put through, go through

(v.t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
(n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; especially, an instrument, toll or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry or of war.
(v.t.) To accomplish; to fulfill.
(v.t.) To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

operate

Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc..
- usage: "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
- synonyms: run
Perform as expected when applied.
- usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- synonyms: function, work, go, run
Handle and cause to function.
- usage: "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
- synonyms: control
Perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense.
- synonyms: manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre
Happen.
- usage: "What is going on in the minds of the people"
Keep engaged.
- usage: "engaged the gears"
- synonyms: engage, mesh, lock
Perform surgery on.
- usage: "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
- synonyms: operate on

(v.t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
(v.i.) 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.
(v.i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
(v.i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
(v.i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
(v.t.) To put into or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
(v.i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary