harnessing

Capturing for work

Harnessing is putting a harness on an animal, especially a horse, to control it or attach it to a vehicle or plow.

The word extends to capturing and directing any force or resource for productive use: harnessing solar energy, harnessing the power of social media.

The emphasis is on bringing something under control to make it useful.

utilization

power

Energy transfer rate

deployment · application · implementation · extraction · generation · collection · channeling · solar · wind · tidal

control

restraint

Control over impulses

regulation · command · coordination · discipline · containment · direction · reining · bridling · tethering · yoking

Categories
Opposites
control and utilization

harnessingreleasing

Allowing to escape

freeing · liberating · unharnessing · unleashing · letting loose

productive use

harnessingwasting

Using poorly, inefficiently

squandering · ignoring · neglecting · dissipating · frittering away

PHYSICAL RESTRAINT (literal sense)

harnessingunharnessing

Removing working equipment

unhitching · unyoking · releasing · freeing · unbuckling

Family

harness, harnesses, harnessed, unharness, unharnessed, reharnessed

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G