Was heißt to operate

Was heißt to operate

The valve was operated wide heißt der volle Satz.

think, in the end, that Richard is right about hypercorrection.
This is what Erik Kowal told me in another forum:
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1 The valve was opened widely
They do not mean the same thing.
If we expanded 1) to make its meaning as explicit as possible, we would produce something like:
'The valve was operated in such a manner as to put it into a wide-open condition'.
Expanding 2) would produce something like the following:
'The valve was operated in a wide manner'.
From this it is apparent that 2 is the only grammatically acceptable variant.

Ich übersetze es meist mit "in Gang setzen".

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Dann muss das ein Fehler sein und openeed meinen. Eine betriebene Beatmungsröhre, die geweitet wird, ergibt zero Sinn.

Der Satz lautete: The valve operated wide.