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How to use actuate in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb

Actuate means to activate, or to put into motion; to animate. Example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:actuated.”

Examples of actuate by meaning

verbTo activate, or to put into motion; to animate.

  • The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket.1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright...

More sentences with actuate

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:actuated.From the entry actuated
  • To get at the very root of religion we must lay bare the first notions or thoughts that actuated mankind.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the…. From the entry cerebration
  • This paper explores the new field of active control of proverse (conventional) and converse buckling in piezoelectrically actuated beams using Post-Buckled Precompressed (PBP) elements.2008 April, Roelof Vos, Ron Barrett, Daniel Zehr, “Magnification of work output in PBP class actuators using buckling/converse buckling…. From the entry proverse
  • The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action. From the entry market
  • Therefore, W is defined as the nonactuatable portion of the DEA (i.e. the amount of DEA material that, although available for actuation, yet, cannot be actuated).2020 August 24, Carson Farmer, Hector Medina, “Dimensionless parameter-based numerical model for double conical dielectric elastomer…. From the entry nonactuatable
  • Rotation of the control wheels actuates the total range display counters on the face of the control unit, and the mag-slip transmitters which control the track plotter actuators.1968, Shipbuilding and Shipping Record - Volume 111, page 64. From the entry mag-slip
  • There are two brake blocks per wheel of the locomotive, and each brake block is actuated by its own cylinder, which obviates rigging (except to the hand parking brake).1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 124. From the entry brake block
  • A graphical record is also made on the strip fed through the recorder, the pen of which is actuated by the mag slip and repeater unit.1955, Institution of Production Engineers (Great Britain), Journal - Volume 34, page 313. From the entry mag slip
  • “It is what, in the long run, I feel to be my actuating ideal—I mean, of course, our sympathy.” The tremendosity of the implication, at all events, arrested his attention.1903, James Henry, “The Idealists”, in The Mortarboard, […] [T]he Junior Class of Barnard College, books II–III, pages 86–87. From the entry tremendosity

Meaning of actuate

  1. verb To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
  2. verb To incite to action; to motivate.

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Questions about actuate in a sentence

How do you use actuate in a sentence?
Actuate is used as a verb. For example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:actuated.”
What is a short sentence with actuate?
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:actuated.”
What does actuate mean?
Actuate means to activate, or to put into motion; to animate.

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