activate

English

Etymology

From active +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/
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Verb

activate (third-person singular simple present activates, present participle activating, simple past and past participle activated)

(transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
activate the economy
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
The pranksters activated the fire alarm by spraying deodorant next to it.
(transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
(transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
(transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
(transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
(transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
(transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
(transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.
A new squadron was activated.
(transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.

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activation

Translations

to put into operation

Albanian: aktivizoj (sq)
Arabic: فَعَّلَ (ar) (faʕʕala)
Asturian: activar
Basque: aktibatu
Bengali: সক্রিয় করা (śokriẏo kora)
Bulgarian: пускам (bg) (puskam), активирам (bg) (aktiviram)
Catalan: activar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 激活 (zh) (jīhuó)
Danish: aktivere
Dutch: activeren (nl), aanzetten (nl), inschakelen (nl)
Esperanto: aktivigi
Estonian: rakendama
Finnish: aktivoida (fi), käynnistää (fi)
French: actionner (fr), activer (fr)
Galician: activar (gl)
German: aktivieren (de), freischalten (de)
Greek: ενεργοποιώ (el) (energopoió) (ανοίγω (el) (anoígo))
Hungarian: aktivál (hu), működésbe hoz (hu)
Indonesian: mengaktifkan (id)
Kazakh: активтендіру (aktivtendıru)
Kyrgyz: жандыруу (ky) (jandıruu)
Maori: whakahohe, whakaharuru
Marathi: सक्रिय करावे (sakriy karāve)
Norman: activiser
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aktivere (no), aktivisere (no)
Persian: انجامیدن (fa) (anjâmidan), فعال کردن (faâl kardan), کنشور کردن (konešvar kardan), کاری کردن (kâri kardan), کناییدن (konāyidan)
Polish: aktywować (pl) impf or pf, uaktywniać impf, uaktywnić pf
Portuguese: ativar (pt)
Romanian: activa (ro)
Russian: активизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (aktivizírovatʹ), активи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (aktivírovatʹ), приводи́ть в де́йствие impf (privodítʹ v déjstvije), привести́ в де́йствие pf (privestí v déjstvije), включа́ть (ru) impf (vključátʹ), включи́ть (ru) pf (vključítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: aktivírati (sh)
Slovene: aktivirati, vključiti
Spanish: activar (es)
Swedish: aktivera (sv)
Turkish: etkinleştirmek (tr)

to activate a software functionality — see enable

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Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} activar
Italian: ^{(please verify)} attivare (it)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 活性化する (かっせいかする, kasseika suru)
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 使活动 (shǐ huódòng), ^{(please verify)} 啟動 / 启动 (zh) (qǐdòng), ^{(please verify)} 启动 (zh) (qǐdòng) (qǐdòng), ^{(please verify)} 触发 (zh) (chùfā) (chùfā)
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} dunotön

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Spanish

Verb

activate

second-person singular voseo imperative of activar combined with te