Sentence examples for actuates from inspiring English sources

Wordsworth advised a young poet, "You feel strongly; trust to those feelings, and your poem will take its shape and proportions as a tree does from the vital principle that actuates it".

The right hand of the player is placed inside the bell mouth, and the left actuates the three rotary valves (piston valves in English-made horns); when depressed they deflect air through additional tubing and lower the pitch by certain intervals.

If process parameters exceed the specified normal or safe ranges, the control computer actuates a signal light and alarm horn and prints a message indicating the nature of the problem for the technician.

The starter actuates the upward swing of the barrier from the stalls when all are in place.

After reaching the brake chamber from the brake valves, the air acts on a diaphragm connected to a push rod, which in turn actuates a cam or wedge that moves the shoes against the brake drum.

The signal output of such systems actuates red or green LEDs in the camera finder system to show whether the image is sharp or not.

He was arrested twice but never charged and contended both arrests were "actuated by malice".

Though not cheap, using digital processors to send electronic signals down a wire to servo motors that mechanically actuate the control system in question reduces the number of moving parts that can break, get jammed or simply wear out.

In one respect, we join in the complaint, but with motives of a different kind from those which actuate many of our fellow grumblers.

A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.The author of this radical, class-conscious vision of society was James Madison, America's fourth* president and co-author of its constitution.

It consists of a pendulum swung on a pivot and actuated by a hand-wound clockwork whose escapement (a motion-controlling device) makes a ticking sound as the wheel passes a pallet.