Word Meanings - ACTUATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 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

Additional info about word: ACTUATE

Etym: 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. "To actuate what you command." Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate; animate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACTUATE)

• Induce Produce
• cause
• prompt
• persuade
• instigate
• impel
• actuate
• urge
• influence
• move
• prevail on

Related words: (words related to ACTUATE)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 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
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• INSTIGATE
  To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime. He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. Bp. Warburton. Syn. --
• PREVAILINGLY
  So as to prevail.
• PROMPTUARY
  Of or pertaining to preparation. Bacon.
• PROMPT-NOTE
  A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
• PROMPTNESS
  1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. 2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• PROMPTER
  1. One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action. 2. One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• PREVAIL
  1. To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• REINDUCE
  To induce again.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• IMPROMPT
  Not ready. Sterne.
• REPRODUCE
  To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again