Helen Fenton

Actuate: Definition and part of speech

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Actuate

  1. a. Put in action; actuated.
  2. v. t. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; — more commonly used of persons.
  3. v. t. To carry out in practice; to perform.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Actuary: Definition and part of speech

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Actuary

  1. n. The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.
  2. n. A registrar or clerk; — used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.