Activate and Induce

verb

• Put in motion or move to act.
  • usage: "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
  • synonyms: trip, actuate, trigger, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off
• Make active or more active.
  • usage: "activate an old file"
• Make more adsorptive.
  • usage: "activate a metal"
• Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter.
  • synonyms: aerate
• Make (substances) radioactive. .

verb

• Cause to arise.
  • usage: "induce a crisis"
  • synonyms: bring on
• Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.
  • usage: "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
  • synonyms: stimulate, cause, have, get, make
• Cause to occur rapidly.
  • usage: "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"
  • synonyms: stimulate, rush, hasten
• Reason or establish by induction.
• Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes.
  • synonyms: induct

• (v.t.) To lead in; to introduce.
• (v.t.) To draw on; to overspread.
• (v.t.) To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.
• (v.t.) To produce or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
• (v.t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.
• (v.t.) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.