What is the difference between activate and actuate?
activate | actuate |
To put into action, to put to work.
To turn on.
To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
* Johnson
To incite to action; to motivate.
* 1748 . HUME, David Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 11.
* Addison
Actuate is a synonym of activate.
As verbs the difference between activate and actuate
is that activate is to put into action, to put to work while actuate is to activate, or to put into motion; to animate.activate
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* actuateAntonyms
* deactivateAnagrams
* English ergative verbsactuate
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(actuat)- Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
- A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
- Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.