ALL meanings of activate
ac·ti·vate
A a - verb activate If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working. 3
- verb activate to make active or capable of action 3
- verb activate to make radioactive 3
- verb activate to increase the rate of (a reaction) 3
- verb activate to treat (a substance, such as carbon or alumina) so as to increase powers of adsorption 3
- verb activate to prepare by arousal (the body or one of its organs (e.g. the brain)) for action 3
- verb activate to purify (sewage) by aeration 3
- verb activate to create, mobilize, or organize (a unit) 3
- verb transitive activate to make active; cause to engage in activity 3
- verb transitive activate to put (an inactive military unit) on an active status by assigning personnel, equipment, etc. to it 3
- verb transitive activate to make capable of reacting or of accelerating a chemical reaction 3
- verb transitive activate to treat (sewage) with air so that aerobes will become active in it, thus purifying it 3
- transitive verb activate machine: start 1
- transitive verb activate program, membership: make active 1
- transitive verb activate military: organize to action 1
- noun activate Make (something) active or operative. 1
- verb with object activate to make active; cause to function or act. 1
- verb with object activate Physics. to render more reactive; excite: to activate a molecule. to induce radioactivity. 1
- verb with object activate to aerate (sewage) in order to accelerate decomposition of impure organic matter by microorganisms. 1
- verb with object activate Chemistry. to make (carbon, a catalyst, molecules, etc.) more active. to hasten (reactions) by various means, as heating. 1
- verb with object activate to place (a military unit or station) on an active status in an assigned capacity. 1
- verb activate To put into action, to put to work. 0
- verb activate To turn on. 0