What's the difference between harness and unharness?

Harness


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
  • (n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
  • (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
  • (v. t.) To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
  • (v. t.) To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
  • (2) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
  • (3) Finally, it is suggested that the gestural approach clarifies our understanding of phonological development, by positing that prelinguistic units of action are harnessed into (gestural) phonological structures through differentiation and coordination.
  • (4) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
  • (5) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
  • (6) "We should be looking instead at decentralising the system, and looking closer to home for our energy supplies, such as solar panels on homes or harnessing wind energy on the coasts, or inland," he said.
  • (7) The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and South Africa agreeing to buy half of the power generated.
  • (8) None of us is locked into a harness on a bench, being made unwillingly acquainted with tobacco products.
  • (9) In LNCaP cells (a prostate tumor cell line) the hAR is a heterogeneous protein which is synthesized as a single 110 kDa protein, but becomes rapidly phosphorylated to a 112 kDa protein.
  • (10) However, Reinfeldt's majority was undermined by the far right, who have sought to harness anti-immigrant sentiment in a country where one in seven residents is foreign-born.
  • (11) Shows such as Dave Gorman's PowerPoint Presentation or Alex Horne's Seven Years in the Bathroom demonstrate an impressive ability to harness technology to the cause of live comedy; the visual aspects in both cases contribute enormously to the laughs, but it's hard to imagine how the shows would survive a power cut.
  • (12) Costs were diminished since with the same harness it was possible to carry out the intraoperative blood salvage and concentrate the erythrocytes contained in the oxygenator and its lines.
  • (13) Global policymakers know well the immense value of forests – so why have development interventions largely failed to harness the positive contributions of forested landscapes?
  • (14) Garcia says the movement is currently seeking to harness the anger in a common agenda of clear demands, a difficult task given the multiplicity of visions; it is not yet clear how much can be achieved.
  • (15) "In a way, it was good for harnessing anger," she continues.
  • (16) Specificity for the hAR was established by immunoprecipitation, immune-complex density gradient centrifugation and immunohistochemistry on human prostate tissue sections.
  • (17) In weightlessness, "falls" were achieved using elastic cords running from a torso harness to the floor.
  • (18) No significant changes in HAF, HAR, or hepatic tissue blood flow (HTF) occurred after the treatment.
  • (19) Almost a century after they were nearly destroyed by the Bolsheviks, these fierce horsemen – recruited by Ivan the Terrible in 1571 to guard Russia's borders – are back in harness.
  • (20) AHH and OHH suspension transiently increased interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production in response to the mitogen concanavalin A. Harness restraint alone did not affect IFN-gamma response.

Unharness


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen.
  • (v. t.) To disarm; to divest of armor.

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