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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: excite (0.01737 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to excite.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: excite menggairahkan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: excite membangkitkan gairah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: excite excite v 1: arouse or elicit a feeling 2: act as a stimulant; “The book stimulated her imagination”; “This play stimulates” [syn: stimulate] [ant: stifle] 3: raise to a higher energy level; “excite the atoms” [syn: energize, energise] 4: stir feelings in; “stimulate my appetite”; “excite the audience”; “stir emotions” [syn: stimulate, stir] 5: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; “The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks” [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, charge up ] [ant: calm] 6: stimulate sexually; “This movie usually arouses the male audience” [syn: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up] 7: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; “These stories shook the community”; “the civil war shook the country” [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, stir] 8: produce a magnetic field in; “excite the neurons”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Excite Excite \Ex*cite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excited; p. pr. & vb. n. exciting.] [L. excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: cf. OF. esciter, exciter, F. exciter. See Cite.] 1. To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physiol.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. 3. (Elec.) To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 4. (Physics) To raise to a higher energy level; -- used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] Syn: To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. Usage: To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or urge forward to a specific act or end. Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip, and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body of C[ae]sar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of plunder. [1913 Webster]

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