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Acuates vs Actuates - What's the difference?

acuates | actuates |

As verbs the difference between acuates and actuates

is that acuates is (acuate) while actuates is (actuate).

acuates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (acuate)

    • acuate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sharpened; sharp-pointed.

    • Verb

    (acuat)
  • (obsolete) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
  • * Harvey
    • [To] acuate the blood.

    actuates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (actuate)

    • 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

    Related terms

    * actuation

    See also

    * actualise, actualize ----