Activate and Effect

Activate

Activate verb - To cause to function.

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Effect and activate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Effect" instead a verb "Activate".

Effect verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Activate and effect are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Activate" instead a verb "Effect".

The show even has contingencies in place for if a guest takes the lever away from Graham to prevent him from flipping people in the Big Red Chair (he just has to mime cranking the lever to signal the booth to play the sound effect and activate the chair).

Source: Series / The Graham Norton Show
The broom effect is functionally a mix of Yume Nikki's witch and bicycle effects, and can be used to activate a special flying event in the rainbow maze area, similar to Yume Nikki's Flying event.

Source: Video Game / .flow
A duelist will activate some trap/spell/monster card effect, only to have his opponent reply with something like "That won't work, my monster/trap/spell is immune to that effect".

Source: Exactly What I Aimed At