Energize
['enədʒaɪz] or ['ɛnɚdʒaɪz]
Definition
(v. i.) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
(v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.
Inputed by Alphonso
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. i. Act with vigor, act forcibly.
v. a. Give energy to, give force to, excite to action.
Checked by Conan
Examples
- The current from a small battery suffices to energize the pen, and with the stencil thus made hundreds of copies of the document can be furnished. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Twenty-five instruments were energized from one circuit, and the quotations were supplied from a central at 18 New Street. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The dynamo, however, must be energized by a steam engine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The pole-pieces of the magnet were movable, and would be attracted to the revolving disk when the magnet was energized, grasping the same and acting to retard the revolution of the car axle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The type-magnet advances the letter and figure wheels one step when the magnet is energized, and a succeeding step when the circuit is broken. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is well known that the diaphragm of a telephone vibrates with the fluctuations of the current energizing the magnet beneath it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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