Actuate

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To carry out in practice; to perform.

(a.) Put in action; actuated.

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• One of the most modern of typewriters has a single electro-magnet to actuate all the type bars of a set, and to throw each type from its normal position to the printing centre. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• With the Edison telephone, the sound-waves actuate an electric valve, so to speak, and permit variations in a current of any desired strength. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But the case is entirely altered, when the passions unite together, and actuate the mind at the same time. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In the chapter on Electrical inventions reference is made to the mighty power of Niagara used to actuate a great number of electrical and other machines of vast power. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Impressions always actuate the soul, and that in the highest degree; but it is not every idea which has the same effect. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• With Edison's telephone the sound-waves simply actuate an electric valve, so to speak, and permit variations in a current of any desired strength. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In the present instance, a worse feeling than either of these actuated the leader. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I will not pretend to question the motive which actuated Sherman in taking an officer from another army to supersede General Logan. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Here the view always fixes when we are actuated by either of these passions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• My mother, though highly exasperating to the feelings, is actuated by maternal dictates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A compact little stitching apparatus, not larger than a tea-pot, is actuated by an endless belt from an electric motor at one end. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But the feelings that actuated Evadne were rooted in the depths of her being, and were such in their growth as he had no means of understanding. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Does he not on the contrary feel a freedom of will within him, which, though you may call it fallacious, still actuates him as he decides? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The current is transmitted to the electric motors, actuating each of the wheels of the power car and the trailers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It will be understood that electromagnets were the ticker's actuating agency. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They result by a criminal neglect of builders or engineers to provide themselves with such devices, or by a most ignorant or careless management and operation of simple actuating mechanisms. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Singer was the first to apply the treadle to the sewing machine for actuating it by foot power in the place of the hand-driven crank wheel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• According to Froebel, the actuating force is the presentation of symbols, largely mathematical, corresponding to the essential traits of the Absolute. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The electromagnets and other actuating mechanism cannot be seen plainly in this figure, but are produced diagrammatically in Fig. 2, and somewhat enlarged for convenience of explanation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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