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Actuate vs Typebar - What's the difference?

actuate | typebar |

As a verb actuate

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

As a noun typebar is

in some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.

actuate

English

Verb

(actuat)
  • To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
  • * Johnson
  • Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
  • 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.
  • A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
  • * Addison
  • 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

    * actuator

    See also

    * actualise, actualize ----

    typebar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.
  • See also

    * (Typewriter) * (commonslite)