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What (who) is Harness - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Harnesses; Harnessing; Harness (disambiguation)
harness
v. (D; tr.) to harness to (to harness horses to a coach)
Harness
·vt Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
II. Harness ·vt To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
III. Harness ·vt To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to Array.
IV. Harness ·noun The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, ·etc.; gear; tackling.
V. Harness ·noun Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
VI. Harness ·noun The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
harness
¦ noun
1. a set of straps and fittings by which a horse or other draught animal is fastened to a cart, plough, etc. and is controlled by its driver.
2. a similar arrangement of straps, as for fastening a parachute to a person's body or for restraining a young child.
¦ verb
1. fit with a harness.
2. control and make use of (resources).
Phrases
in harness
1. in the routine of daily work: an ordinary man who died in harness.
2. in close partnership.
Derivatives
harnesser noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. harneis 'military equipment', from ON, from herr 'army' + nest 'provisions'.
Wikipedia
Harness
A harness is a looped restraint or support. Specifically, it may refer to one of the following harness types:
- Bondage harness
- Child harness
- Climbing harness
- Dog harness
- Pet harness
- Five-point harness
- Horse harness
- Parrot harness
- Safety harness
- Windsurfing harness
- The backpack straps of a breathing apparatus
Harness may also refer to:
- Cable harness
- Test harness, in software testing
- Harness racing, horse racing
- Loom harness, a component of a loom
- Harness, a type of clinch in grappling
- Harness, Arkansas, a ghost town
- Full harness restraints, see belly chain
Examples of use of Harness
1. It wants to harness their potential as reporters.
2. "My son didn‘t have an air pack or safety harness.
3. As a candidate you learn how to harness the Internet.
4. It‘s so shiny." Daniel strained under his stroller harness.
5. Harness the German train system to your cause and fly to a nearby city.