Actuate vs Stimulate - What's the difference?
actuate | stimulate | Synonyms |
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 encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
As verbs the difference between actuate and stimulate
is that actuate is to activate, or to put into motion; to animate while stimulate is to encourage into action.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.