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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
- (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
- (dated) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
- The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
Verb
- (transitive) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
- (transitive) To capture, control or put to use.
Exempel
- Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
- At least we'll die with harness on our back.
- They harnessed the horse to the post.
- Imagine what might happen if it were possible to harness solar energy fully.
- Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
- Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
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