0 a piece of equipment with straps and belts, used to control or hold in place a person, animal, or object:
1 to put a harness on a horse, or to connect a horse to a vehicle using a harness
2 a piece of equipment, including straps for fastening it, used to control an animal such as a horse or attach it to a load to be pulled, or a set of straps used to hold a person in place:
a horse’s harness
a parachute harness
4 to collect and control something so that it can be used effectively:
harness energy/ideas/skills Organizations need to harness the skills and knowledge of people who are retired or unemployed.
harness the power of sth Plans to help developing countries harness the power of technology are important in the fight against global warming.
The prospect of holding public office successfully harnessed private ambition to party legitimation and swelled the ranks of the partisan labour force.
The first pertains to the development of interventions that effectively harness empirically identified protective processes.
The recent surge of interest in harnessing computers for teaching suprasegmentals has lead to the development of a number of programmes.
Potentially, harnessing temporal logic offers much more than this in modelling the argumentation process.
A harness is a context with a single hole that is enclosed only within parallel compositions, restrictions and ambients.
Instead of attempting to eliminate emergent phenomena, it could be interesting to explore how this might be deliberately achieved and harnessed.
While some seemed to have discarded it, others harnessed it for their own benefit.
In 1933 the association of directory publishers was taken over and the information and advertising industries were harnessed to the interests of the state.
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輓具, 繫帶, 給(馬)上輓具…
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挽具, 系带, 给(马)上挽具…
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arnés, poner el arnés a, enjaezar…
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arreio, arnês, arrear…
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koşum takımı, kayış, emniyet kayışı/bağı…
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harnais [masculine], exploiter, harnacher…
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postroj, okšírovat, využít…
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seletøj, spænde for, udnytte…
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