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[ verb ] put to use
Synonyms Examples "exert one's power or influence" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference * * f and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear . (Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)Both types of tube withstood the pressure of approximately 20 atmospheres exerted by the carbon_tetrachloride at 220 ` . |
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[ verb ] make a great effort at a mental or physical task
Examples "exert oneself" Used in print (William H. Ittelson and Samuel B. Kutash,...)Autosuggestibility , the reaction of the subject in_such_a_way as to conform_to his own expectations of the outcome ( i. e. , that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction , because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons : ( 1 ) the subjects ' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose , and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e._g. , of becoming dizzy and maybe falling , an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ) . |
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