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Component Semantics:
- Activate
- Definition: To put a Entity into a state where it can participate in an action.
- Required slot: object
- Inherited from: Make-Accessible
- Restriction: a Entity
- Required slot: post-conditions
- Restriction: object is put into a Be-Activated
State.
- Primary slot: agent
- Inherited from: Make-Accessible
- Restriction: causes object to be Activated
- Primary slot: instrument
- Restriction: a Entity
- Restriction: used in Activating the object
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: activate#2
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: enable#1, flip#2, gear_up#1, prepare#1, reactivate#1, ready#2, set#7, set#8, set_up#15, switch#5, throw#6
To Activate is to cause the object to be able to participate in an Action.