Harnessed
[hɑ:nist]
Definition
(adj.) brought under control and put to use; 'electricity from the harnessed Colorado River'; 'the harnessed power of the atom' .
Checker: Tom--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Harness
Typist: Tito
Examples
- And so I caused Hor Vastus to be harnessed in the metal of a Zodangan soldier and chained in Parthak's cell beside him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Before that time it seemed impossible that explosive gases would ever be harnessed as steam had been and made to do continual successful work in a cylinder and behind a piston. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I saw the pony harnessed myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They so harnessed him and drove him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Cutting disks are harnessed to steam motors and are adapted to break up at one operation a wide strip of ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The dream has been realised, and the turbine is the apparatus through which the power of the harnessed giant is transmitted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The sun was now fairly harnessed in the service of man in the new great art of Photography. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Such is the story of how James Watt took Newcomen’s simple piston and cylinder and so harnessed steam that he could make it do the work he wanted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even the fleeting wind has been harnessed by man, and, as in the windmill, made to work for him (Fig. 119). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They were then led out, harnessed by force and hitched to the wagon in the position they had to keep ever after. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I take Tamburlaine in his chariot for the tremendous course of the world's physical history lashing on the harnessed dynasties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The horse, whose health had been drunk in his absence, was standing outside: ready harnessed to the cart. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The oxen driven to the water until they must swim; then harnessed to the boats, and, when they found their feet, staggering up the sand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Tito