Meet and Operate

Meet

Meet verb - To come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face.

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Operate and meet are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operate" instead a verb "Meet".

Nearby Word: meeting

Operate verb - To control the mechanical operation of.

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Meet and operate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Meet" instead a verb "Operate".

In the Doctor Who TV movie, we first meet "Amazing Grace" Holloway in the audience of Madame Butterfly when she gets paged to operate on the Doctor.

Source: At the Opera Tonight
Continuity Reboot/Origins Episode: Tells how Bond came to meet Q, Moneypenny, and the male M, as well as how he came to operate out of the Universal Exports' offices.note None of this has ever actually been depicted in the films before, nor in any of the Fleming novels.

Source: Film / Skyfall
When you finally meet the primary antagonist you learn the proximate reason why he needs to keep the birds in SkyTown (his ghosts need darkness to operate, and the sun follows the birds), but you never learn what his actual goals are, nor do you ever learn anything about who he is.

Source: Video Game / An Untitled Story

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