Animate and Activate

verb

• Heighten or intensify.
  • usage: "These paintings exalt the imagination"
  • synonyms: inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
• Give lifelike qualities to.
  • usage: "animated cartoons"
  • synonyms: animize, animise
• Make lively.
  • usage: "let's liven up this room a bit"
  • synonyms: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
• Give new life or energy to.
  • usage: "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
  • synonyms: recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

adjective

• Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.
  • usage: "the word `dog' is animate"
• Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life.
  • usage: "we are animate beings"
• Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness."the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage- T. E. Lawrence
  • synonyms: sentient

• (a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
• (v.t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
• (v.t.) To give powers to or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
• (v.t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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. .