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Definition: Activate |
ActivateVerb1. Actuate; "trigger a reaction". 2. Make active or more active; "activate an old file". 3. Make more adsorptive; of metals. 4. Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter. 5. Make (substances) radioactive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Military | 1. To put into existence by official order a unit, post, camp, station, base or shore activity which has previously been constituted and designated by name or number, or both, so that it can be organized to function in its assigned capacity. (DOD) 2. To prepare for active service a naval ship or craft which has been in an inactive or reserve status. See also commission; constitute. 04/12/01: Deleted from JP 1-02 per revision. (references) |
Military & Defense | To put into existence by official order a unit, post, camp, station, base or shore activity which has previously been constituted and designated by name or number, or both, so that it can be organized to function in its assigned capacity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | To induce radioactivity by irradiation. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ACT | English | Activate | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ActivateSynonyms: actuate (v), aerate (v), set off (v), spark (v), spark off (v), touch off (v), trigger (v), trigger off (v), trip (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inactivate (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Activate |
| English words defined with "activate": horn button ♦ mechanical piano ♦ Pianola, player piano, proof ♦ raise, reactivate, reset button ♦ self-acting, self-activating, self-moving, self-regulating. (references) |
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 | Proteins in the cytoplasm target and activate biochemical reactions in specific cellular components, such as the mitochondria and the nucleus. Within the nucleus, gene expression is activated and leads to new protein synthesis, which are formed on the endoplasmic reticulum. These proteins are transported via the Golgi complex for packaging and distribution to cellular membrane and for extracellular release. See artwork: (on disk in file). Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). |  | "I'll take the photographs and activate the experiments. You collect the specimens and transmit verbal reports on observations and for heaven's sake, remember, step on a crack, break your mother's back!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Activate; alert; animate; arouse; awaken; call forth; enliven; excite; incite; kindle; provoke; revive; stimulate; stir up; vivify; awake. |
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Thomas p Kempis | Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. |
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Health | Functional neuromuscular stimulation may help activate some paralyzed muscles. (references) | |
They are needed to activate many immune cells, including B cells and other T cells. (references) | ||
Glutamate is the neurotransmitter most often used by nerve cells to activate, or excite, one another. (references) | ||
Business | By January 2001, Sea Transport Bank plans to install and activate 12 automated teller machines and nearly 50 Point of Sales (POS) terminals. (references) | |
These are exciting the major automobile producers with their security implications, which among many other features, are able to detect the driver's identity from fingertip sensors on the steering wheel, and activate locks through recognition of the owner's voice. (references) | ||
A pager can only be purchased through dealers, otherwise, the buyer will no be able to activate it. In the case of cellulars, end-user may purchase the phone at any store, but if it was not purchased in an authorized dealer, it will only be activated directly by CODETEL, TRICOM, or All America Cables and Radio. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | President Chavez warned Globovisión's director Alberto Federico Ravell and its owner Nelson Mezerhane that if they did not reconsider their broadcasts, he would "be forced to activate mechanisms in defense of the national interest, truth and public order" and that their actions might have "legal consequences." President Chavez noted that the "airwaves belong to the State," announced that he had ordered the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to investigate the station, and warned that the station's broadcast licenses might be reviewed. (references) |
Economic History | Indonesia | These grants are market/company driven, taking one to four months to activate from the writing of the proposal to departing for the exchange. (references) |
Egypt | The increase in the number of licensed bond dealers is expected to activate the secondary market for bonds as the GOE continues to search for ways to diversify the market. (references) | |
Trade | Korea | The government reduced the unlimited guarantee for bank deposits to 50 million won ($38,000) per account beginning in 2001 to further activate market disciplines. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Activate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 72.26% of the time. "Activate" is used about 310 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 72.26% | 224 | 20,130 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.97% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.77% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 310 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "activate": region to activate. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "activate": re-activate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "activate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aktiveer (put, put on, start, swotch, swotch on, turn on), aandoen (affect, call, call at, cause, give, give rise to), veroorsaak (cause, give, give rise to), berokken (cause, give, give rise to). (various references) | |
Albanian | aktivizoj (Energize, put on, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفذ (act, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), نشط (active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), زود وحدة عسكرية, جهز (accommodate, appoint, device, equip, equip with, fit, fit out, furnish, gear, get ready, outfit, pack up, prepare, provide, set off, set smb. up in smth., stand by, think out), أعد (dish, dispose, draft, dress, engage, engross, fit, get smb. working, pass, plan, put up, ready), شغل (busy, carry out, employ, engage, fill, hold, job, occupation, operate, pop on, power, run, switch on, task, turn on, work). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ускорявам (accelerate, advance, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, smarten up, speed up, trigger, urge, zip), формирам (embody, form, make, mould), активизирам (detonate, fillip, move, push), аерирам (aerate, aerify), пращам на действителна служба, правя радиоактивен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 激活 (activated, activating). (various references) | |
Czech | aktivovat, uvést do chodu (float), uèinit radioaktivním, spustit (cast, drop, have down, let down, take down, trigger off, turn on), rozhýbat k èinnosti. (various references) | |
Danish | aktivere. (various references) | |
Dutch | activeren (put on, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references) | |
Faeroese | orsaka (cause, excuse, give rise to), gera (achieve, act, build, carry out, cause, construct, do, form, get, give rise to, make, perform, shape, take action). (various references) | |
Farsi | کنش ورکردن , بفعالیت پرداختن (Put), بکارانداختن (Actuate, Agitate, Exercise, Operate). (various references) | |
Finnish | aktivoida. (various references) | |
French | activer. (various references) | |
Frisian | aktivearje (put on, start, swotch on, turn on), oandeare (cause, give rise to), feroarsaakje (cause, give rise to). (various references) | |
German | aktivieren (enable, get moving, step up, to enable). (various references) | |
Greek | ενεργοποιώ. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | aktivizoj (put on, start, swotch on, turn on), aktivizohem (put on, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשפעל (operate), ל"פוך לפעיל, ל"פעיל (actuate, bring into play, operate, ply, set in motion, start, trigger, turn on, wield, work), ל" יע (disturb, drive, impel, induce, motivate, prompt, propel, set in motion, stir, urge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | aktivizál (put on, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references) | |
Icelandic | orsaka (cause, give rise to), kveikja á (put on, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggiatkan (bestir, encourage), mengaktifkan, mengaktifitaskan. (various references) | |
Italian | attivare (actuate, start up), causare (bring, bring about, cause, do, effect, give, give rise to, produce, start off, work). (various references) | |
Korean | 활성"하십시". (various references) | |
Malay | membangkitkan (cause, give rise to). (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo bio, greinnaghey (abet, activation, coach, coaching, encourage, encouragement, goad, incite, induce, inducement, prompt, stimulate), bioyraghey (activation, animate, enlivenment, smarten, vitalize). (various references) | |
Papiamen | aktivá (advance, put on, start, swotch on, turn on), kousa (cause, give rise to). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | activateay.(various references) | |
Polish | sprawiać (cause, give rise to), powodować (cause, give rise to). (various references) | |
Portuguese | activar (put on, start, swotch on, turn on). (various references) | |
Romanian | activiza (actuate), activa (accelerate, act, actuate, dispatch, expedite, facilitate, hasten, stimulate, work), stimula (abet, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), organiza (arrange, erect, establish, order, organize, regiment, settle, systematize, systemize), completa (complement, complete, fill, fill up, recruit, round, supplement). (various references) | |
Russian | зачислять в часть, активировать, активизировать активизация пусковой, активизировать (actuate), делать радиоактивным. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | aktivirati (set off, spring, trigger, trip). (various references) | |
Spanish | activar (enable, press on with, push on). (various references) | |
Swedish | aktivera. (various references) | |
Turkish | aktif hale getirmek, kurmak (base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), harekete geçirmek (actuate, arouse, deploy, edge on, Energize, fillip, give a fillip to, impel, prompt, rally, set going, set in motion, spark, whack up), etkinleştirmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | робити радіоактивним, активувати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "activate": activated, activates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "activate": deactivate, inactivate, reactivate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "activate": deactivated, deactivates, inactivated, inactivates, nonactivated, reactivated, reactivates. (additional references) | |
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"Activate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: activa, activat, activatd, activise, aktiva, astigate, atiate, cativate, cavitate, estivant, Optivite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "activate" (pronounced a"ktuvā't) |
| 7 | a" k t u v ā' t | reactivate. |
| 5 | -t u v ā' t | cultivate, motivate. |
| 4 | -u v ā' t | aggravate, elevate, excavate, innovate, renovate, salivate. |
| 3 | -v ā' t | captivate, inactivate, deactivate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cavitate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: cavetti. | |
-2 letters: active, atavic, aviate, cattie, caveat, vacate, vittae. | |
-3 letters: aceta, aecia, attic, cavie, civet, evict, tacet, tacit, tecta, vatic, vitae, vitta. | |
-4 letters: acta, cate, cave, cite, etic, tace, tact, tate, teat, vice, vita. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, ait, ate, att, ava, ave, cat, eat, eta, ice, tae, tat, tav, tea, tet, tic, tie, vac, vat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: activated, activates, captivate, cavaletti, cavitated, cavitates. | |
+2 letters: attractive, captivated, captivates, cavalletti, deactivate, inactivate, reactivate, vaticinate. | |
+3 letters: abstractive, acetylative, deactivated, deactivates, deactivator, facultative, inactivated, inactivates, reactivated, reactivates, vaticinated, vaticinates. | |
+4 letters: anticreative, articulative, attractively, cultivatable, deactivating, deactivation, deactivators, facilitative, nonactivated, reactivating, reactivation, unattractive. | |
+5 letters: acculturative, contaminative, deactivations, facultatively, participative, ratiocinative, reactivations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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