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    2. Work.

Operation, n.

    1. Action, agency.
    2. Influence, effect, action, force.
    3. Performance, procedure, process, proceeding, manipulation.
    4. Movement, motion, manœuvre.

Operative, a.

    1. Acting, active, in action, in operation.
    2. Effective, efficient, effectual, efficacious, serviceable, vigorous.
    3. Practical.

Operative, n. Laborer, artisan, laboring man, workman.

Operator, n.

    1. Doer, actor, performer, agent, executor.
    2. Manipulator.

Operose, a.

    1. Laborious, toilsome, hard, onerous, burdensome, difficult.
    2. Wearisome, tedious, irksome.

Ophite, n. (Min.)

    1. Serpentine, ophiolite.
    2. Verd-antique marble.
    3. Green porphyry, oriental verd-antique.
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