activate
The accident was caused by the unneccessary activation of a fire extinguisher.
A mayday call may result in the activation of a lifeboat.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing things to happen
actuation
agent
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attribute something to someone
awaken (something) in someone
hyperstimulate
hyperstimulation
implement
implementation
in
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prompt
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Pygmalion effect
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realization
realize
render
spark
spell

Examples of activation

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Addition of minocycline to cultures reduced but did not completely inhibit activation of this pathway.
Thus, our analysis revealed evidence of the partial activation of most regions of the social brain network from at least 3 months.
This suggests that language production can be greatly enhanced by the prior activation of relevant linguistic representations (in this case, lexical and syntactic representations).
However, the activation of semantic representations necessary for the retention of meaning will continue to be sustained in the postsentence retention interval.
Oocytes surviving the injection were either cultured without further treatment or exposed to ethanol solution to induce parthenogenetic activation.
Early vegetative symptoms, however, may also contribute to the high rates of depression seen later in the course of immune activation.
The behavioral result is that activation in this pathway is thought to facilitate top-down goal-oriented behavior and thereby simultaneously suppress alternative nongoal-oriented behaviors.
This initial activation may, therefore, be a trigger and/or the initial stages of the processes ultimately leading to binding of that sensory event.
Functional activation of the human frontal cortex during the performance of verbal working memory tasks.
The distinction between activation and integration has profound implications for predicting and understanding interactions between event codes.
These models focus on two issues (activation and competition for activation) that are also central to understanding bilingual language production.
There can therefore be no one-to-one correspondence between visual experience and neural activations.
The end result of the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways is the activation of the initiator procaspases 2, 8, 9 and 10.
On finding that the activation of nicotinic receptors seemed to depress visual responses, we proceeded to investigate the mechanism of this effect.
We suggest that this increased activation reflects the extra visual processing needed for name retrieval, as opposed to object recognition, to take place.
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activation

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automatic activation
Such automatic activation is most apparent when inhibitory control is lacking, either following brain insult or during early infancy.
cortical activation
It may be that threat simulations are associated with increased cortical activation, leading to intensive motor imagery that breaks through the malfunctioning inhibitory mechanisms.
differential activation
Within a given belief system, individual differences can emerge as a consequence of differential activation of these various mechanisms.
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