These are the meanings of the letters NPRTEAOE when you unscramble them.
- Operant (a.)
Operative.
- Operant (n.)
An operative person or thing.
- Operate (v. i.)
To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- Operate (v. i.)
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- Operate (v. i.)
To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
- Operate (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.
- Operate (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.
- Operate (v. t.)
To produce, as an effect; to cause.
- Operate (v. t.)
To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
- Pronate (a.)
Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees.
- Protean (a.)
Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
- Protean (a.)
Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.