(v. t.) To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

(v. t.) To carry out in practice; to perform.

(a.) Put in action; actuated.

整理:桑婭

• One of the most modern of typewriters has a single electro-magnet to actuate all the type bars of a set, and to throw each type from its normal position to the printing centre. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀(jì)發(fā)明.
• With the Edison telephone, the sound-waves actuate an electric valve, so to speak, and permit variations in a current of any desired strength. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛(ài)迪生的生平和發(fā)明.
• But the case is entirely altered, when the passions unite together, and actuate the mind at the same time. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• In the chapter on Electrical inventions reference is made to the mighty power of Niagara used to actuate a great number of electrical and other machines of vast power. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀(jì)發(fā)明.
• Impressions always actuate the soul, and that in the highest degree; but it is not every idea which has the same effect. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• With Edison's telephone the sound-waves simply actuate an electric valve, so to speak, and permit variations in a current of any desired strength. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛(ài)迪生的生平和發(fā)明.
• In the present instance, a worse feeling than either of these actuated the leader. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個(gè)人.
• She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• I will not pretend to question the motive which actuated Sherman in taking an officer from another army to supersede General Logan. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個(gè)人回憶錄.
• Here the view always fixes when we are actuated by either of these passions. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• My mother, though highly exasperating to the feelings, is actuated by maternal dictates. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• A compact little stitching apparatus, not larger than a tea-pot, is actuated by an endless belt from an electric motor at one end. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀(jì)發(fā)明進(jìn)展.
• But the feelings that actuated Evadne were rooted in the depths of her being, and were such in their growth as he had no means of understanding. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個(gè)人.
• When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀(jì)發(fā)明.
• Does he not on the contrary feel a freedom of will within him, which, though you may call it fallacious, still actuates him as he decides? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個(gè)人.
• That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• The current is transmitted to the electric motors, actuating each of the wheels of the power car and the trailers. 佚名. 神奇的知識(shí)之書(shū).
• It will be understood that electromagnets were the ticker's actuating agency. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛(ài)迪生的生平和發(fā)明.
• They result by a criminal neglect of builders or engineers to provide themselves with such devices, or by a most ignorant or careless management and operation of simple actuating mechanisms. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀(jì)發(fā)明.
• Singer was the first to apply the treadle to the sewing machine for actuating it by foot power in the place of the hand-driven crank wheel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀(jì)發(fā)明進(jìn)展.
• According to Froebel, the actuating force is the presentation of symbols, largely mathematical, corresponding to the essential traits of the Absolute. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• The electromagnets and other actuating mechanism cannot be seen plainly in this figure, but are produced diagrammatically in Fig. 2, and somewhat enlarged for convenience of explanation. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛(ài)迪生的生平和發(fā)明.

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