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Activated   /ˈæktəvˌeɪtəd/  /ˈæktɪvˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Activated

adjective
1.
(of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.
2.
(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive.  Synonym: excited.
3.
Rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive.
4.
(military) set up and placed on active assignment.



Activate

verb
1.
Put in motion or move to act.  Synonyms: actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip.  "Actuate the circuits"
2.
Make active or more active.
3.
Make more adsorptive.
4.
Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter.  Synonym: aerate.
5.
Make (substances) radioactive.



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"Activated" Quotes from Famous Books



... borne in mind that for any one or all of the organs of speech to become operative or to manifest any action, they must be innervated or activated by impulses originating in ...
— Stammering, Its Cause and Cure • Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

... difficult. In fact, if we believe that we see both ends of the spectrum lying, as it were, flatly on the surface of the observation screen, this is merely an illusion due to our superficial way of using our eyes. If we gaze with our visual ray (activated in the manner previously described) into the two sides of the spectrum, while turning our eyes alternately in one or other direction, we soon notice that the colours of the yellow-red rise towards the eye so as to give the impression of protruding almost corporeally ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

... himself, "that Pete assembled these robots in a batch and then activated them all at once, probably never living to realize that they're tuned to pick up human brain waves, too. Damn! Damn!" His eyes blurred and he slammed his fist into ...
— Survival Tactics • Al Sevcik

... center of the needle-sharp zero beat every Kedy struck. Gripped and activated as they all were by Hilton's keyed-up-and-stretched-out mind, they struck in what was very ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith

... the conventional distilling plants of Earth," I said, "except that the basic ingredient, a silicon compound, is irradiated as it passes through zirconium tubes to the heating pile, where it is activated and broken down into the droplets of the elixir called Moon Glow. You see the golden ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns

... heard Lea's gasp in the darkness. She stumbled down the ramp and he followed her slowly, careful of the weight of packs and equipment he carried. The sand, still hot from the day, burned through his boots. Ihjel came last, the remote-control unit in his hand. As soon as they were clear he activated it and the ramp slipped back like a giant tongue. As soon as the lock had swung shut, the ship lifted and drifted upwards silently towards its orbit, a shrinking darkness ...
— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison

... knew something was wrong, and as soon as his "curiosity" circuits were activated, he set out in search of the trouble, his little treads ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

... originally possessed; it must be remembered, however, that in primitive races they were of importance, and they arose because they served a useful end. From the study of these remnants of former days, we are able to learn the trends of thought which activated and inspired the minds of primitive people. When we clearly understand these motives, we may then judge the extent of their influence on our present day thought ...
— The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races - An Interpretation • Sanger Brown, II



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