Activate vs. Actuate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Activate and Actuate
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Activate
To set in motion; make active or more active.
Actuate
To carry out in practice; to perform.
Activate
To organize or create (a military unit, for example)
Activate the National Guard.
Actuate
To put into motion or action; activate
Electrical relays that actuate the elevator.
Activate
To treat (sewage) with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.
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Actuate
To cause to take action
A speech that actuated dissenters.
Activate
(Chemistry) To accelerate a reaction in, as by heat.
Actuate
(transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
Activate
(Physics) To make (a substance) radioactive.
Actuate
(transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.
Activate
(Biology) To convert (a molecule or cell) into a form that carries out a specific action
Activate an enzyme.
Activate B cells.
Actuate
To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; - more commonly used of persons.
Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.
Activate
(transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
Activate the economy
Actuate
Put in action; actuated.
Activate
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
The pranksters activated the fire alarm by spraying deodorant next to it.
Actuate
Put in motion or move to act;
Trigger a reaction
Actuate the circuits
Activate
To render more reactive; excite.
Actuate
Give an incentive for action;
This moved me to sacrifice my career
Activate
To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
Activate
To render a substance radioactive.
Activate
To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
Activate
To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
Activate
(transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
Activate
To organize or create a military unit or station.
A new squadron was activated.
Activate
To bring a player back after an injury.
Activate
To make active.
Activate
Put in motion or move to act;
Trigger a reaction
Actuate the circuits
Activate
Make active or more active;
Activate an old file
Activate
Make more adsorptive;
Activate a metal
Activate
Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
Activate
Make (substances) radioactive
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