单词 | actuated |
释义 | actuatedadj. 1. Put into action; actualized; moved, stimulated, impelled. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [adjective] > bringing into action > brought into action or set in operation started1468 started1519 raiseda1616 actuated1628 derepressed1960 1628 R. Hayman Quodlibets Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Yet is my proofe rather in hope of others, then in any actuated performance of mine owne. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 243 It doth delight me to see a bright creature come out of the slime-heap, and to see these slime-heaps such actuated Models, that they should have the whole world wait upon them, and the Creator himselfe bow down to them. 1735 H. Brooke Universal Beauty iii. 30 Where the Solar Heat, and searching Air Transgressive, pierce our actuated Sphere. 1845 R. Montgomery Ideal of Eng. Church 62 ‘All’ which our actuated soul is, thinks, feels, or wills, appear like a mysterious pulsation of the One Infinite Mind who throbs with simultaneous expression ‘in All’. 1914 M. Prince Unconscious vii. 203 In dreams..there are..two processes; one is the conscious dream, the other is a subconscious process which is the actuated residuum of a previous experience. 2005 A. G. Cooper Body in St. Maximus Confessor v. 234 Love is the actuated, embodied fullness of what faith tends towards. 2. As the second element in compounds: activated, motivated, or impelled by the thing specified. Cf. activated adj. 1b.light-, servo-, vehicle-actuated, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. xviii. 415 Spring-actuated stirrers, controlled by an electro-magnet of high resistance in a shunt around the battery. 1919 P. Grainger Let. 12 Mar. in All-round Man (1994) 46 All freedom loving, individualistic..and compromise-actuated folk are inclined to distrust the passion for sacrifice. 1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms App. B 139 Later, screw-actuated elevating and traversing mechanisms were included. 1952 H. F. Olson Musical Engin. v. 143 The reed organ pipe consists of an air-actuated reed coupled to a conical pipe. 1988 N. Baker Mezzanine xiii. 111 That device had two syringal finger-hooks and a thumb-actuated plunger. 2009 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 18 June g13 The EX version comes with a voice-actuated GPS system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1628 |
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