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词汇 activate
释义 activate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈæk.tɪ.veɪt/ us /ˈæk.tə.veɪt/
to cause something to start: 引起,引发(坏事)
The alarm is activated by the lightest pressure.最轻微的压力也会触动警报。
chemistry specialized
to make a chemical reaction happen more quickly, especially by heating(尤指通过加热)加速…的化学反应
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing things to happen
activation
actuation
agent
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breed
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hyperstimulate
hyperstimulation
implement
implementation
prompt
proximately
put someone to somethingidiom
Pygmalion effect
reactivate
realization
render
spark
spell

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activation

activate | American Dictionary


activate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈæk·təˌveɪt/
to cause something to start working:
Something activated the car alarm.
In sports, to activate a player is to bring that player back to the regular team after an injury.

activation


noun[ U ]us/ˌæk·təˈveɪ·ʃən/

activate | Business English


activate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈæktɪveɪt/us
to make something start working or happening:
New customers must call an automated line to activate their card.
The move will activate a clause in the contract which gives the company the option to sell or demand the outstanding £3.5m owed on the deal.

Examples of activate


activate
As words are initially processed, their various representations in long-term memory are activated.
Then various items "raise their hands," that is, are activated.
In most accounts, activated semantic representations are thought to spread activation down to their corresponding lexical representations at the lexical level.
First, we have to know whether the representations of the language-not-in-use are activated at all during production in the response language.
The larger the overlap between the input string and a representation in the mental lexicon, the more the internal representation is activated.
At first, all words that share the initial phoneme are activated.
Researchers can observe specific deficits that follow brain damage, and can also observe which areas of the brain are selectively activated during imagery.
The shape of the seed, moisture, and other constraints are like the information activated in your memory by cues.
In the absence of these two last features, the implicature 'not foreseen' is activated (pp. 53 + 4).
If the attachment system is activated by separations from caregivers, then children should demonstrate an increase in attachment related behaviors from preseparation to reunion episodes.
First, its secretion is activated when a threat is identified.
In the psychoanalytic or psychodynamic idea tradition, these types of defense mechanisms, or "ego controls," are considered to be activated to regulate emotional stress.
The linguistic cue church activates a label unit associated with a particular kind of entity known as a church.
Moreover, the manipulation of exposure duration had a dramatic effect on which brain regions were activated.
Each type is activated by a particular affect and possesses a distinctive behavioral form and neural mediation.
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