Definitions for activate
ˈæk təˌveɪtac·ti·vate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch offverb

   put in motion or move to act

   "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"

2. activateverb

   make active or more active

   "activate an old file"

3. activateverb

   make more adsorptive

   "activate a metal"

4. activate, aerateverb

   aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter

5. activateverb

   make (substances) radioactive

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. activateverb

   To put into action, to put to work.

2. activateverb

   To turn on.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Activateverb

   To make active. This word is perhaps used only by the author alleged.

   Etymology: from active.

   As snow and ice, especially being holpen, and their cold activated by nitre or salt, will turn water into ice, and that in a few hours; so it may be, it will turn wood or stiff clay into stone, in longer time. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 83.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Activateverb

   to make active

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Activate

   ak′ti-vāt, v.t. (Bacon) to make active:—pr.p. ac′tivāting; pa.p. ac′tivāted.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. activateverb

   American college test taking action by doing something to fulfill the function or serve the purpose of tending to be active and having the nature of automated test equipment denoting a product or action. 1.) make something active or operative. Convert into a reactive form.

   I had to become who I am to be able to activate my power.

   Etymology: Enlightened

   
   

   Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 25, 2024  

2. ---

   activate

   To make active.

   They did activate the new software using a password.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'activate' in Verbs Frequency: #902

Anagrams for activate »

1. cavitate

How to pronounce activate?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of activate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of activate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of activate in a Sentence

1. Raj Dasgupta:

   When you activate this receptor, it makes you sleepy, many sleep aids that we take work on GABA.

2. Timothy Plante:

   Since it seems nearly everyone has a phone on them nowadays, it’s rare that someone would have to run off to use a landline and leave someone clinically unstable alone, at the very least, a cell in every hand has helped bystanders activate emergency medical services more rapidly.

3. Karl Kraus:

   Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

4. Natan Bar-Chama:

   When Lauren Manaker cause damage to cell membranes, Lauren Manaker are impacting the ability of the sperm to attach, penetrate and activate the complex fertilization process.

5. Allah Akbar:

   What ISIS does is I think it gives direction, organization, and because of its command of the social media can actually activate people in a way that was more random before, but, the general issue is radical Islam. And unless we have a president who immediately says this is a lone gunman, how does he know?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=activate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Activate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=activate
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/activate
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=activate