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UK
/hˈɑːnɪst/
]
[ US /ˈhɑɹnəst/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑɹnəst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
brought under control and put to use
electricity from the harnessed Colorado River
the harnessed power of the atom
How To Use harnessed In A Sentence
- Wind energy and solar power could be harnessed to heat the dwellings and provide enough energy for daily needs.
- Any dog not in harness was howling and yelping to be put in one, and even when harnessed they continued with their wretched wailing until they were off and running.
- In this way, the energy released by the exergonic reaction can be partially harnessed to drive the endergonic one.
- He harnessed his new-found zeal to a crusade against vice. Times, Sunday Times
- Machines and engines, pulleys and wheels, and the idea that power could be harnessed by man-made devices made the toilsome labor of the past nearly obsolete.
- They drove in from neighbouring villages with their produce for sale in a kind of drosky, the _carretella_ as it was called, with its single pony harnessed to the near side of the pole. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
- So physicists got to wondering whether radiation pressure could be harnessed to help an item soar.
- That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions. Times, Sunday Times
- Other companies in the league table have harnessed web-based technologies to streamline business operations. Times, Sunday Times
- Here these creatures had harnessed the grinding workings of the planets themselves, all to survive, all to call a plaintive note into a still and silent sky. Across The Sea Of Suns