What does EXCITE mean?
Definitions for EXCITE
ɪkˈsaɪtex·cite
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Princeton's WordNet
exciteverb
arouse or elicit a feeling
stimulate, exciteverb
act as a stimulant
"The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates"
stimulate, excite, stirverb
stir feelings in
"stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge upverb
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind upverb
stimulate sexually
"This movie usually arouses the male audience"
stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stirverb
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
"These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
excite, energize, energiseverb
raise to a higher energy level
"excite the atoms"
exciteverb
produce a magnetic field in
"excite the neurons"
GCIDE
Exciteverb
(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.
Wiktionary
exciteverb
To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.
exciteverb
To stir the emotions of.
The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
exciteverb
To arouse or bring out; to stimulate.
Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
exciteverb
To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited, then emit a photon when returning to normal.
exciteverb
To energize; to produce a magnetic field in.
to excite a dynamo
Etymology: From exciten, from exciter, from excitare, frequentative of exciere, from ex + ciere. See cite and compare to accite, concite, incite.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To EXCITEverb
Etymology: excito, Latin.
The Lacedemonians were more excited to desire of honour with the excellent verses of the poet Tirtæus, than with all the exhortations of their captains, or authority of their rulers and magistrates. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland.
That kind of poesy which excites to virtue the greatest men, is of greatest use to human kind. Dryden.
ChatGPT
excite
To excite is to cause strong feelings of enthusiasm, eagerness, or arousal in someone or something. It can also refer to provoking a particular reaction or response, such as stimulating an atom or molecule to a higher energy level.
Webster Dictionary
Exciteverb
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
Exciteverb
to call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts
Etymology: [L. excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: cf. OF. esciter, exciter, F. exciter. See Cite.]
Wikidata
Excite
Excite is a collection of web sites and services, launched in December 1995. Excite is an online service offering a variety of content, including an Internet portal showing news and weather etc., a search engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage. The content is collated from over 100 different sources. Excite's portal and services are owned by Excite Networks, but in the USA, Excite is a personal portal, called My Excite, which is operated by Mindspark; owned by IAC Search and Media. In the 1990s, Excite was one of the most recognized brands on the Internet.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Excite
ek-sīt′, v.t. to call into activity: to stir up: to rouse: to irritate.—ns. Excītabil′ity, Excīt′ableness.—adj. Excīt′able, capable of being excited, easily excited.—ns. Excitant (ek′sit-ant, or ek-sīt′ant), that which excites or rouses the vital activity of the body: a stimulant; Excitā′tion, act of exciting: means of excitement: state of excitement.—adjs. Excīt′ātive, Excīt′ātory, tending to excite.—p.adj. Excīt′ed, agitated.—ns. Excite′ment, agitation: that which excites; Excīt′er.—p.adj. Excīt′ing, tending to excite.—adj. Excī′to-mō′tor, exhibiting muscular contraction. [Fr.,—L. excitāre, -ātum—exciēre—ex, out, ciēre, to set in motion.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of EXCITE in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of EXCITE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of EXCITE in a Sentence
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
As the electrons spiral down toward the atmosphere, they produce radio emissions, and then when they hit the atmosphere, they excite hydrogen in a process that occurs at Earth and other planets, we now know that this kind of auroral behavior is extending all the way from planets up to brown dwarfs.
We're thrilled that the Dead will keep walking into a new corner of the post-apocalyptic world, a corner that will present stories and characters unlike any that The Walking Dead has dramatized thus far, and that is bound to excite one of the most passionate fanbases in television, the Walking Dead.
Whenever I'm talking to young women about politics, I always say, look, you don't have to run for office, you don't have to be actively involved, but you do have to exercise your brain in deciding what you believe and who you will support, and sometimes, it is choices between people that none of whom excite you, but study it enough to figure out, OK, if I vote for this person over that person, I'm more likely to see progress on something I care about.
The market will become more volatile as much of the policy expectation has been priced in, so if policies fail to excite investors, the market may fall again.
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- стимулирам, подбуждам, възбуждам, вълнувамBulgarian
- podnítit, vzrušit, excitovatCzech
- ophidseDanish
- erregen, anregenGerman
- emocionar, excitar, estimularSpanish
- virittää, innostaa, synnyttää, kiihottaa, herättääFinnish
- øsaFaroese
- exciterFrench
- הלהיב, עורר, ליבה, דירבןHebrew
- menggairahkanIndonesian
- æsaIcelandic
- accendere, riaccendere, eccitare, stimolare, provocareItalian
- 励起, 刺激, 興奮, 活性化Japanese
- commoveōLatin
- opwinden, exciteren, stimuleren, prikkelenDutch
- podniecaćPolish
- comover, empolgar, provocar, animarPortuguese
- взволнова́ть, волнова́ть, стимули́ровать, возбуди́ть, возбужда́тьRussian
- kusisimuaSwahili
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