Facilitate vs Actuate - What's the difference?
facilitate | actuate |
To make easy or easier.
To help bring about
To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)
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
As verbs the difference between facilitate and actuate
is that facilitate is to make easy or easier while actuate is to activate, or to put into motion; to animate.facilitate
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(facilitat)actuate
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(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.