English-Thai Dictionary

actuate

VT กระตุ้น ให้ ทำ  กระตุ้น ให้ ดำเนินการ  ทำให้เกิด การกระทำ บางอย่าง  kra-tun-hai-tham

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ACTUATE

a.Put in action. [Little used. ]

 

ACTUATE

v.t.[from act. ] To put into action; to move or incite to action; as, men are actuated by motives, or passions. It seems to have been used formerly in the sense of invigorate, noting increase of action; but the use is not legitimate.

 

ACTUATED

pp. Put in action; incited to action.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ACTUATE

Ac "tu *ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Actuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Actuating. ]Etym: [LL. actuatus, p. p. of actuare, fr. L. actus act. ]

 

1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

 

2. To carry out in practice; to perform. [Obs. ] "To actuate what you command. " Jer. Taylor.

 

Syn. -- To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate; animate.

 

ACTUATE

Ac "tu *ate, a. Etym: [LL. actuatus, p. p. of actuare.]

 

Defn: Put in action; actuated. [Obs. ] South.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

actuate

ac tu ate |ˈakCHo͞oˌāt ˈæktʃueɪt | ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] cause (a machine or device ) to operate: the pendulum actuates an electrical switch. 2 (usu. be actuated ) cause (someone ) to act in a particular way; motivate: the defendants were actuated by malice. DERIVATIVES ac tu a tion |ˌakCHo͞oˈāSHən |noun, ac tu a tor |-ˈātər |noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin actuat- ‘carried out, caused to operate, ’ from the verb actuare, from Latin actus (see act ). The original sense was ‘carry out in practice, ’ later ‘stir into activity, enliven ’; sense 1 dates from the mid 17th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

actuate

actuate |ˈaktʃʊeɪt, -tjʊ -| ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] make (a machine or device ) operate: the pendulum actuates an electrical switch. 2 make (someone ) act in a particular way; motivate: the defendants were actuated by malice. DERIVATIVES actuation |-ˈeɪʃ (ə )n |noun, actuator noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin actuat- ‘carried out, caused to operate ’, from the verb actuare, from Latin actus (see act ). The original sense was ‘carry out in practice ’, later ‘stir into activity, enliven ’; sense 1 dates from the mid 17th cent.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

actuate

actuate verb 1 the sprinkler system was actuated by the fire: activate, operate, switch on, turn on, start up, set going, get going, start off, trigger off, trigger, trip, set in motion, initiate, initialize, energize, animate. 2 they proved that the defendant was actuated by malice: motivate, stimulate, move, drive, rouse, stir, stir up, fire, fire up, arouse; prompt, incite, spark off, influence, impel, spur on, urge, goad; rare activate.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

actuate

ac tu ate /ǽktʃuèɪt /動詞 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠1 〈機械 器具 装置など 〉を作動 [始動 ]させる, 動かす .2 〖通例be ～d 〗〈人が 〉【衝動 感情などに 】駆り立てられる, 動かされる «by » ; «…するように » 駆り立てられる «to do » .à c tu á tion 名詞 á c tu à tor 名詞