0 past simple and past participle of harness
1 to put a harness on a horse, or to connect a horse to a vehicle using a harness
The prospect of holding public office successfully harnessed private ambition to party legitimation and swelled the ranks of the partisan labour force.
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.
Commentators on and promoters of the new illustrated books of the 1850s did not simply emphasize how powers of multiplication had been harnessed.
This is a thought-provoking paper, harnessed to unquestionable richness of data.
A recent report looks at the way in which this has been harnessed to diagnose disease.
If the endoscope is harnessed to a video recorder, the study can be viewed and reported on at a later date.