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# activate

«activate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make it start working, like a machine, alarm or account** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (activate, activates, activated, activating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To activate something is to make it start working, like a machine, alarm or account. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#m1)

2) (science) To activate a process or chemical is to make it start or become active. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used about alarms, cards, accounts, apps, buttons, games and science (yeast is activated by warm water). In instructions: «Press to activate».

### examples

- The smoke activated the fire alarm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#x1)
- Press the red button to activate the robot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#x2)
- You need to activate your new library card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#x3)
- Warm water activates the yeast in bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#x4)
- The trap is activated when someone steps on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#x5)
- Sunlight activates the solar lamp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#x6)
- The hero activated the shield just in time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: «activation». Opposite: «deactivate», «switch off». More formal than «turn on» or «start».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «activate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/activate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.