Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To set in motion; make active or more active.
- transitive verb To organize or create (a military unit, for example).
- transitive verb To treat (sewage) with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.
- transitive verb Chemistry To accelerate a reaction in, as by heat.
- transitive verb Physics To make (a substance) radioactive.
- transitive verb Biology To convert (certain biological compounds) into biologically active derivatives.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make active; intensify.
- In physics, to render active; specifically, to make radioactive by exposure to the influence of a radioactive substance; to ionize. See
radioactivity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make active.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To put into
action , to put towork . - verb To
turn on .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put in motion or move to act
- verb make active or more active
- verb make more adsorptive
- verb make (substances) radioactive
- verb aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
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Examples
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We have all seen Teppo activate from the blue line and drop in.
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He advised this outage is nationwide and NO-ONE call activate iPhones right now. 1-2+ hours not helpful! was the projected time of "repair".
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More deeply, when coupled with emotion, labels activate something at the physical, sensation level.
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The client service was then activated by the declarative services bundle by calling activate (ComponentContext).
PlanetJava 2009
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Modify the focused function to call the activate method: void {_suggestClip. activate ();}
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As far as UCD is concerned, I see it as nothing more except one of many helper tool's/mechanism's to induce and "activate" the next dormant prescribed "blueprint".
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When I try to "activate" by moving the mouse, I only get my desktop screen, with no taskbar.
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As far as UCD is concerned, I see it as nothing more except one of many helper tool's/mechanism's to induce and "activate" the next dormant prescribed "blueprint".
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According to the press release, DoSomething. org will "activate" two million young people by 2011.
Peter Buffett Integrates Action Network Into DoSomething.org 2010
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According to the press release, DoSomething. org will "activate" two million young people by 2011.
Peter Buffett Integrates Action Network Into DoSomething.org 2010
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