activate   (Sound)

The verb activate has 5 senses

• trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off -- (put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits")


• activate -- (make active or more active; "activate an old file")


• activate -- (make more adsorptive; "activate a metal")


• activate, aerate -- (aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter)


• activate -- (make (substances) radioactive)