actuated
IPA: ˈæktʃueɪtɪd
adjective
- moved to action
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Examples of "actuated" in Sentences
- The machine was actuated.
- The brake is actuated by depressing the pedal.
- Pulling the cord actuated the repeater mechanism.
- The cursor control circuit is actuated by the keyboard.
- Valves can be closed or "actuated" either manually or by hydraulics.
- But now that you are free, you should be actuated by a more noble principle than fear.
- A kind of actuated mirror would scan the beams from a red, a green, and a blue laser to generate an image.
- I could not believe that the love of life that actuated us had been implanted in our breasts by aught other than God.
- The apparatus by which purposive movements are actuated is the nervous system, and also, the muscles into which the nerve fibre is so intimately interlaced.
- Some of these are really a form of slot machine with coin actuated mechanisms while others are motor driven, attracting attention as moving displays always do.
- Composed of men and women actuated by lofty purpose and unafraid to die, the Fighting Groups exercised tremendous influence and tempered the savage brutality of the rulers.
- Dorje has done that to her which sets up consequences; she gives birth to consequence; it is a sacred frenzy such as actuated all those widows who committed suttee in the days gone by.
- The material, operating upon our senses, is always asserting its existence; and if our inner life is not equally vigorous, we shall be moved, urged, what is called actuated, from without, whereas all our activity ought to be from within.
- She was as alien as a far-journeyer from some other star, and no hint could she nor all the countryside give me of what forms of living, what heats of feeling, or rules of philosophic contemplation actuated her in all that she had been and was.