The question arises: How does the spermatozoon activate the egg?
It consists of a Bunsen battery that I activate not with potassium dichromate but with sodium.
The electricity generated here makes its way to the stern, where electromagnets of huge size activate a special system of levers and gears that transmit movement to the propeller's shaft.
But we could see well enough to find our way, and it still wasn't necessary to activate the Ruhmkorff device.
He could only hope they'd kill him before he came so close to his own that he'd have to activate the conditioning.
He had to activatethe conditioning or buy his death with the information the Traiti wanted.
It took him but a moment to activate the engine that, for a wonder, caught almost immediately.
I'll disguise myself as a Man, walk through the gate to the reactor room, andactivate my Displacer.
Somehow, one of them had to get very near the reactor room, in order to activate the Displacer.
Otherwise you look and feel exactly the same--but if you should need them, I've given you a complex of hidden changes, all of which will activate if any one of them is required.
God willing, arrangements will be complete for you a new husband and wife by the time I activate the Strike Force, and she'll perform the ceremony.
Then I'd say the attack on the convent would be a good time to activate the Strike Force.
If they catch on before then, either modify the Writs or simply never activate us, I won't be able to do anything!
Once a simulation is a success, the main ZAM will activate the action (in connection with local-ZM).
They can obtain information from the external reality or from other models, or they can create and activate models which can act on the external reality (ZAM and AZM).
But when we use the sentence "I go to the forest with a gun and a dog", it is very probable that we do not activate any ZM-model.
The next step is to activate not the whole model, but only some associated truth of the ZM-model.
In turn, this new model can also activate as a model any of its elements.
ZAM will build and activate a number of local models (ZAM and AZM) to reach its goals.
The main design feature of the brain, which is used by these technological dreams, is to activate the PSM.
Under stress conditions, the driver could activate another model (associated or not to the external reality) and so, he/she is not properly prepared for the moment when the traffic light changes to green.
Example: when the word "dog" is heard, it is very probable that we activate at least one suitable ZM.
Such models can destabilize the whole structure of models due to some infinite loops performed in order to gain stability (the model with problems will activate some other models, including the PSM, in a continuous way).
As several models exist, associated to the same external reality, the possibility exists to activate any of them or several at one time; these models can change dynamically.
They build, activate and deactivate any ZAM, based on a set of goals.
Thus, the animals will have difficulties to build and activate a model, either for attack or defense.
I can activate the automatic AI override three minutes after takeoff.
But this was hardly the moment to activate the detonators and blow the place.
The moment they were clear, he'd activate the radio and detonate.
He tested the radio transmitter one last time, making sure it would activate the blade, then reached down and clamped the mechanism onto the wire, tightening it with thumb screws.
The instant he switched the turboramjets over to the scramjet mode, he was going to activate it and blow their fucking AI module out of the system.
He had not the slightest idea of how to activate the machines, let alone broadcast in the proper code.
The males are few in number and lack the power to activate the disks.
This was a rebel camp, after all, so the vehicles shouldn't require personal ID to operate; if it was like most large fleets a single code should be able to activate anywhere from five to a couple of decade vehicles.
He breathed a sigh of relief when the card proved to activate this vehicle as well; he might have had to go through a decade or so.
We contend with it so as to remove it and, at the same time, activate the spiritual nature.
Few of us, by our efforts alone, can activate our spiritual natures in a vital and creative way.
It was a series of artificial satellites on the rim of the planetary system, with long-range detecting and tracting systems that would activate and co-ordinate firing mechanisms to blast any ship from the void.
It was Aron's duty to de-activate them with a control in his station if he was signalled by a pre-arranged code from a friendly United Republic ship.
The only way to achieve a landing would be for a friendly ship to signal him and have him de-activate the defenses--which definitely had not happened!
It was definitely time toactivate the warranty on this job.
As the vehicle encountered denser and denser atmosphere, pressure could activate a switch that sensed the altitude and instigated detonation at a preprogrammed height.
Activate IFF," he ordered, glancing back at the instrument panels.
Total security, which meant nobody would be able to activate any antimissile defense systems.
See, I'll bet you do the same when you want to de-activate it!
My failure to activate this was the main reason I returned to the yacht and sailed on to Estorya.
You might re-activate one of them, at least, with the help of those servants.
They have enough to do, I assure you, to re-activate me--keep me young and in good condition.
We could build the laser-trigger upon a high tower, allowing me to activate it from the ground at a greater distance.
A fast moving ship could activate it, then be gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "activate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
