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HARNESSED
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I. (adjective)
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Meaning:
Brought under control and put to use
Example:
the harnessed power of the atom
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Similar:
controlled (restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds)
II. (verb)
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Past simple / past participle of the verb harness
Context examples:
So the lord had the horses harnessed to his carriage, drove out to the village, and asked Crabb if he were Doctor Knowall.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
So after that she took no food to the imprisoned Lion; but every day she came to the gate at noon and asked, "Are you ready to be harnessed like a horse?"
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
When the sled was lashed and the complaining dogs harnessed, he returned into the cabin for his mittens.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
An algorithm akin to the annoyingly helpful one that attempts to auto-complete text messages and emails is now being harnessed for a better cause.
(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)
He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The side-passage door was fastened; I opened it with as little noise as possible: all the yard was quiet; but the gates stood wide open, and there was a post-chaise, with horses ready harnessed, and driver seated on the box, stationed outside.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Whether this build-up of free radical stress directly effects cognitive function, and if the body's own antioxidative systems, which can remove free radicals, can be harnessed to counteract these changes and improve quality of life is not known.
(Antioxidants May Prevent Cognitive Impairment in Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Two teams of astronomers, one from INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri in Florence, Italy and the second from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and from University College London, United Kingdom, have harnessed the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to detect the prebiotic complex organic molecule methyl isocyanate in the multiple star system IRAS 16293-2422.
(ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars, ESO)
He was so eager that it should reach you that he would not leave me until the horse was harnessed and I started upon my way.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The team stood harnessed to the sled in an unbroken line, ready for the trail.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
