What's the difference between abet and actuate?

Abet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
  • (v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
  • (v. t.) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
  • (n.) Act of abetting; aid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a statement on Monday, Adams said he was aware that police might want to speak to him about the killing given that veteran republican Ivor Bell was charged at the weekend for aiding and abetting in the murder.
  • (2) The 77-year-old republican veteran denies charges of aiding and abetting in the McConville murder.
  • (3) Worse, politicians abet would-be killers by creating gun markets for them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs.
  • (4) On the eve of Charles Taylor's conviction for "aiding and abetting" such attacks as he and his allies sought control of lucrative diamond fields, Sorie maintained his silence.
  • (5) I give up reading of the hell that criminalisation – abetted by an antediluvian UN – inflicts on the people of Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan and Burma.
  • (6) Whether an on-water or on-land matter the government must come clean and explain to the Australian and international community whether it has funded, aided and abetted those that it calls dangerous criminals – people smugglers – to turn back people seeking asylum and safety,” he said.
  • (7) The team’s failure led to the immediate and “irrevocable” resignations of both the manager and the president of the Italian federation, Giancarlo Abete.
  • (8) "I am disappointed the leadership of my party did not consult me before issuing a press release and seems always to abet the request of the pro-Israel lobby.
  • (9) Book and author quickly acquired a mystique, partly abetted by Salinger, who cultivated his obscurity to the point of mania, becoming as secretive and self-obsessed as Holden Caulfield, in the words of the New York Times , “the Garbo of letters”.
  • (10) Because the Living Will advances the concept of negative euthanasia--an ethical, legal, and political misnomer--and abets the effort to legalize positive or direct euthanasia, it should not be given legal recognition.
  • (11) Just as we argued in the 1980s that those who conducted business with apartheid South Africa were aiding and abetting an immoral system, we can say that nobody should profit from the rising temperatures, seas and human suffering caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  • (12) Most important, Carlin says, Freeman, abetted by the screenwriter, "impressively conveys the giant solitude of Mandela".
  • (13) A final uniform formulation was tentatively proposed that this patient, in addition to a strong genetic component for atopic dermatitis, had her illness abetted by inability to cope with aggressive affects.
  • (14) Investors cite similar reasons for buying green bonds: the ability to earn attractive returns (typically 4% to 5%) with minimal risk; and a growing array of clean energy projects, abetted by lower renewable energy costs, that are environmentally and financially attractive.
  • (15) However, abetted by the resultant low index of suspicion on the part of clinical staff, certain parasitic microorganisms may at times cause significant morbidity and even mortality in both normal and immunocompromised patients, as summarized in this review.
  • (16) Many important aspects of the mechanism(s) abetting renal ammonia metabolism in man have remained unresolved.
  • (17) They are abetted by GP columnists and correspondents in the trade press, who all seem to be on the verge of boarding a plane to leave the country, because of disgust with the NHS .
  • (18) Yettaw was given a seven-year jail sentence, including four years of hard labour, after the court found him guilty of abetting the violation of the house arrest order and two other offences.
  • (19) Their cruelty was abetted by the apparent ineptitude of local authorities, which failed to intervene at several junctures.
  • (20) A significant point was that prior to developing their illness, all these patients had arrived at a state of objectlessness which was abetted by the deafness.

Actuate


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To carry out in practice; to perform.
  • (a.) Put in action; actuated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Active filling (-10 mmHg) inside inner blood sacs was produced by the suction effects of the outer sacs attached to a moving actuator.
  • (2) A model for each actuator was formulated to compute its isometric force-length relation.
  • (3) In the past Tularemia has largely affected animals, nowadays' in our country it could become actual one more because of wild animals repopulation actuated in many areas.
  • (4) The basic concept of this artificial heart is that the blood pumps are implanted in the thorax and an actuator is placed separately in the abdominal region.
  • (5) Many problems remain with actuation, energy conversion, percutaneous leads, compliance devices and biomaterials.
  • (6) Dynamic fractionation of the output from pressurized aerosols using a four-stage liquid impinger showed that the respirable fraction (as measured by the percentage of emitted droplets with aerodynamic diameters less than 5.5 microns) was highly dependent on SPC concentration and R. A significant correlation between RF and actuator score, based on orifice diameter and length, was also found and confirmed that the highest RF values were achieved with the systems of lowest SPC and water concentrations sprayed through an actuator with the smallest and shortest orifice dimensions.
  • (7) The system consists of a) single carcinogenic dose of diethylnitrosamine (DEN), b) short-term dietary exposure to 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) sufficient to suppress growth of virtually all normal hepatocytes, and c) partial hepatectomy (PH) to actuate rapid growth of DEN-altered hepatocytes not suppressed by 2-AAF.
  • (8) After a review of the properties of muscle and tendon, their integrated ability to generate force statically and dynamically is studied by formulating a generic model of the "musculotendon actuator", which has only one parameter, the ratio of tendon length at rest to muscle fiber length at rest.
  • (9) In the second series of experiments, the rats had access to the lever which actuated a fan that drew cool outside air into the chamber.
  • (10) One hundred and fifty one (97%) were able to actuate the inhaler on their first (146) or second (5) attempt.
  • (11) Oxyphenisatin was found to be a selective actuator of a form of progressive mass propulsion indistinguishable from spontaneous mass peristalsis.
  • (12) Equilibrium control of binding implies that critical site occupancy will be proportional to the relative concentrations of "D" and "G" actuating proteins in the nuclear fluid.
  • (13) Substance is given to the need for introduction into the system of the apparatus for assisted circulation of sand-by actuating mechanisms for secure a purposeful influence on the physiological parameters of the organism.
  • (14) We postulate that signal reception occurs as a result of competition between different actuating proteins for equilibrium-controlled binding to critical DNA sites.
  • (15) This system consists of a flexible rod, sheath, crank, and cam to transmit the muscle power to a pusher plate pump and actuate it.
  • (16) The particular application to prosthetic ventricle design should minimize the number of in vivo experiments required to develop a satisfactory blood pump and aid in tailoring pump actuation protocols for minimum thromboembolic complications.
  • (17) Increasing baffle size resulted in increased retention in the actuator.
  • (18) This controller design is based on the physical models of the actuator and blood pump system.
  • (19) The properties of the afferent fibres from the capsule of the hip joint have been studied in the cat in situ, in relations to joint rotation, and in an isolated capsule preparation which was opened and stretched directly with an actuator.
  • (20) The efficacy and safety of cromolyn sodium by metered-dose inhaler (MDI) (1 mg per actuation) was evaluated with a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-study design.