Actuate vs Determine - What's the difference?
actuate | determine | Related terms |
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
To set the limits of.
* Bible, Acts xvii. 26
* Francis Bacon
To ascertain definitely; to figure out.
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, title= To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
* J. Edwards
* W. Black
To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to .
To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
(logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
(obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.
* Shakespeare
Actuate is a related term of determine.
As verbs the difference between actuate and determine
is that actuate is to activate, or to put into motion; to animate while determine is .actuate
English
Verb
(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.
Derived terms
* actuatorSee also
* actualise, actualize ----determine
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(determin)- [God] hath determined the times before appointed.
- The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.
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- The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.
- something divinely beautiful that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life
- Someone else's will determined me to this course.
- The court has determined the cause.
- The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.
- Now, where is he that will not stay so long / Till his friend sickness hath determined me?