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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



... reach this higher long-term level of readiness more quickly, 155,000 members of the Reserve and National Guard were activated under the Act of this Congress. Some disruptions and distress were inevitable. But the overwhelming majority bear their burdens—and their Nation's burdens—with ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... action presumably has its own mechanism— brain pattern—which is activated by but one ceptor and by that ceptor only when physical force of a certain intensity and rate of motion is applied. This is true both of the visible contacts affecting the nociceptors and of the invisible contacts by those intangible forces which affect ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile


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