Activate and Invoke

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. .

(v.t.) To make active.

verb

• Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.
  • usage: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
  • synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
• Cite as an authority; resort to.
  • usage: "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law"
  • synonyms: appeal
• Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection.
  • usage: "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"
  • synonyms: appeal

(v.t.) To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being or to invoke His and blessing.