The difference between Operation and Surgery

When used as nouns, operation means the method by which a device performs its function, whereas surgery means a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.


check bellow for the other definitions of Operation and Surgery

  1. Operation as a noun:

    The method by which a device performs its function.

    Examples:

    "It is dangerous to look at the beam of a [[laser]] while it is in operation."

  2. Operation as a noun:

    The method or practice by which actions are done.

  3. Operation as a noun:

    The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

  4. Operation as a noun:

    A planned undertaking.

    Examples:

    "The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets."

    "The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched."

  5. Operation as a noun:

    A business or organization.

    Examples:

    "We run our operation from a storefront."

    "They run a multinational produce-supply operation."

  6. Operation as a noun (medicine):

    A surgical procedure.

    Examples:

    "She had an operation to remove her appendix."

  7. Operation as a noun (computing, logic, mathematics):

    a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).

  8. Operation as a noun (military):

    A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)

  9. Operation as a noun (obsolete):

    Effect produced; influence.

  1. Surgery as a noun (medicine):

    A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

    Examples:

    "Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading."

  2. Surgery as a noun (medicine):

    The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

  3. Surgery as a noun:

    A room or department where surgery is performed.

  4. Surgery as a noun (British):

    A doctor's office.

    Examples:

    "I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids."

  5. Surgery as a noun (British):

    Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.

    Examples:

    "Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday."

  6. Surgery as a noun (finance, bankruptcy, slang):

    A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".

  7. Surgery as a noun (topology):

    The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.