Another word for actuate | Synonyms for actuate

Another word for actuate

verb

To arouse to action or put in motion:
activate, animate. See action
To set or keep going:
drive, impel, mobilize, move, propel, run. See move
To put into action or use:
apply, employ, exercise, exploit, implement, practice, use, utilize. Idioms: avail oneself of, bring into play, bring to bear, make use of, put into practice, put to use. See used

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If long circuits were worked direct with ordinary instruments, high battery power would be required in order to send sufficient Single current to actuate the apparatus.
The relay was employed to actuate through a local battery B2 an ordinary Morse printing telegraphic instrument M.
The different kinds of motive power used to actuate cranes - manual, steam, hydraulic, electric - give a further classification.
At regular intervals a rotating arm on the distributor connects the five keys of each keyboard to line, thus passing the signals to the distant station, where they pass through the distributor and certain relays which repeat the currents corresponding to the depressed keys and actuate electromagnets in the receivers.
The relay itself served to actuate a Morse printing telegraph by means of a local battery.

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