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activate
Verb
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To activate means to make something active.
The machine activated the screensaver because it was idle.
a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
macro
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noun
a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language
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adjective
very large in scale or scope or capability