Usually means: Initiate function or action; enable.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word activate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. activate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. activate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. activate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. activate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. activate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Activate, activate: Wordnik
  7. activate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. activate: Wiktionary
  9. activate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. activate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. activate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Activate, activate: Dictionary.com
  13. activate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Activate (album), Activate (newspaper), Activate (organisation), Activate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Activate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. activate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. activate: Rhymezone
  18. activate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. activate: Free Dictionary
  20. activate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. activate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. activate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. activate: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. activate: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. activate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. activate: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. activate: Medical dictionary
  4. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ACTIVATE: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. activate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See activated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
verb:  (transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
verb:  (transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
verb:  (transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
verb:  (transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
verb:  (transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
verb:  (transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
verb:  (transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.

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