Actuate vs Typebar - What's the difference?
actuate | typebar |
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
In some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.
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)- 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.