Actuate
verb
To make a machine or system work.
The emergency system was actuated by the fire alarm
Often appears as...
- actuate the system
- actuate the machine
verb
To cause someone to start doing something or start thinking in a particular way.
His strong desire for success actuated his decision to study harder
Often appears as...
- actuate a change
- actuate a decision
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To make a machine or system work.
The emergency system was actuated by the fire alarm
Often appears as...
- actuate the system
- actuate the machine
verb
To cause someone to start doing something or start thinking in a particular way.
His strong desire for success actuated his decision to study harder
Often appears as...
- actuate a change
- actuate a decision
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Mechanical Context
Actuate often relates to mechanical or electrical processes.
An operator actuated the conveyor belt to start the packaging process.
Pro Tip 2/3System Activation
Actuate highlights the start of a system's operation rather than ongoing functioning.
The floodgates were actuated to manage the rising water levels.
Pro Tip 3/3Initiate Action
Using 'actuate' implies direct initiation, often at the beginning of a process.
To actuate the cleaning cycle, press the red button now.
Pro Tip 1/3Mechanical Context
Actuate often relates to mechanical or electrical processes.
An operator actuated the conveyor belt to start the packaging process.
Pro Tip 2/3System Activation
Actuate highlights the start of a system's operation rather than ongoing functioning.
The floodgates were actuated to manage the rising water levels.
Pro Tip 3/3Initiate Action
Using 'actuate' implies direct initiation, often at the beginning of a process.
To actuate the cleaning cycle, press the red button now.
Pro Tip 1/3Mechanical Context
Actuate often relates to mechanical or electrical processes.
An operator actuated the conveyor belt to start the packaging process.
Pro Tip 2/3System Activation
Actuate highlights the start of a system's operation rather than ongoing functioning.
The floodgates were actuated to manage the rising water levels.
Pro Tip 3/3Initiate Action
Using 'actuate' implies direct initiation, often at the beginning of a process.
To actuate the cleaning cycle, press the red button now.
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Video examples
Upgrading management...
are doing is actually shifting the data lens inward to better enable and empower their own people now in the high-performance world the Formula One racing Ferraris actually been doing this for a very long time they were the first one to build one of these on the screen is a sensing and actuating center and it will analyze billions of data points in
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My seven species of...
so we still have a lot of work to do the second robot I want to talk about is called impasse it stands for intelligent mobility platform with actuated spoke system so it's a wheel leg hybrid robot so think of a rimless wheel or a spoke wheel but the spokes individually move
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Carlo Ratti: Architecture...
and said, shouted, "Perché non parli? Why don't you talk?" Well today, for the first time, our environment is starting to talk back to us. And I'll show just a few examples -- again, with this idea of sensing our environment and actuating it. Let's starting with sensing.
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Civil War Submarine PIPE...
than four feet so you are hunkered over and you are actuated this crank you're sweating you're cramped the humidity inside you're in a sealed container I
Video examples
Upgrading management...
are doing is actually shifting the data lens inward to better enable and empower their own people now in the high-performance world the Formula One racing Ferraris actually been doing this for a very long time they were the first one to build one of these on the screen is a sensing and actuating center and it will analyze billions of data points in
Video examples
My seven species of...
so we still have a lot of work to do the second robot I want to talk about is called impasse it stands for intelligent mobility platform with actuated spoke system so it's a wheel leg hybrid robot so think of a rimless wheel or a spoke wheel but the spokes individually move
Video examples
Carlo Ratti: Architecture...
and said, shouted, "Perché non parli? Why don't you talk?" Well today, for the first time, our environment is starting to talk back to us. And I'll show just a few examples -- again, with this idea of sensing our environment and actuating it. Let's starting with sensing.
Video examples
Civil War Submarine PIPE...
than four feet so you are hunkered over and you are actuated this crank you're sweating you're cramped the humidity inside you're in a sealed container I
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Quote examples
Louis MacNeice
British Poet
Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
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Siegfried Sassoon
English Poet
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
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John Paul Jones
American Soldier
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
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Max Stirner
German Philosopher
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.
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Max Stirner
German Philosopher
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites.
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Sidney Poitier
American Actor
Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.
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Louis MacNeice
British Poet
Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
Quote examples
Siegfried Sassoon
English Poet
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
Quote examples
John Paul Jones
American Soldier
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
Quote examples
Max Stirner
German Philosopher
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.
Quote examples
Max Stirner
German Philosopher
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites.
Quote examples
Sidney Poitier
American Actor
Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.
Example 1 of 7
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