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capacitate

[kuh-pas-i-teyt] / kəˈpæs ɪˌteɪt /




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In many cases the gyms really couldn’t even capacitate the crowd if everybody who belonged showed up.

From New York Times Dec. 24, 2010

The physician's art again is no supernatural mystery; long and careful study of physical laws capacitate him for his task.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

The pin must be an accurate fit to the hole, and to capacitate one tool for various sizes of holes the bit is made interchangeable.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

To capacitate the tool to cut a groove close up to a shoulder, it should be forged to the shape shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

Breast-drills do not possess enough driving power to capacitate them for drills of above about quarter inch in diameter, for which various forms of drill cranks are employed.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

As it is swept along the distal uterine tube, the oocyte encounters the surviving capacitated sperm, which stream toward it in response to chemical attractants released by the cells of the corona radiata.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

If this is so, we are still at the most primitive stage, still fumbling with language and thinking, but infinitely capacitated for the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men of large muscles and small nerves can never perform feats of great strength; but they have the power of endurance, and are better capacitated for continued labor.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

When the soul becomes a man or becomes the moon, there is a reason for that, since it thereby becomes capacitated for the enjoyment of pain and pleasure.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut

Fourthly, Of the persons exercising that art in either capacity, of good or bad, and by what means they become capacitated to exercise it.

From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Daniel Defoe




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