harness

English

Harness on a capybara

Etymology

Anglo-Norman harneis, Old French hernois (“equipment used in battle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhɑː(ɹ).nəs/, SAMPA: /"HA:(r\).n@s/

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Noun

harness (plural harnesses)

1. (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
2. (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.

Derived terms

• test harness

Translations

restraint or support

Catalan: arnès (ca) m. Finnish: valjaat (fi) pl. French: harnais (fr) m. German: Geschirr (de) n., Pferdegeschirr (de) n., Gurt (de) m., Anschnallgurt (de) m. Hungarian: hám (hu) Italian: braca (it) f. Manx: greienys (gv), (horse harness) cullee chabbil (gv) f. Polish: uprząż (pl) f.

Portuguese: arreios m. pl. Romanian: ham (ro) n., harnașament (ro) n. Russian: упряжь (ru) (úprjaž) f., сбруя (ru) (sbrúja) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пшњак (sh) m. Roman: pšnjak (sh) m. Spanish: arnés (es) m. Turkish: koşum (tr)

set of wires

Catalan: arnès (ca) m.

Finnish: johtosarja (fi)

Verb

harness (third-person singular simple present harnesses, present participle harnessing, simple past and past participle harnessed)

1. (transitive) to place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain

   They harnessed the horse to the post.

2. (transitive) to capture, control or put to use

   Imagine what might happen if it were possible to harness solar energy fully.

Translations

to place a harness on something

Finnish: valjastaa, ottaa käyttöön French: harnacher (fr) German: vorspannen, nutzbar machen Hungarian: befog (hu) Manx: greigh (gv)

Persian: کنترل کردن Polish: zaprząc Portuguese: arrear (pt), aproveitar (pt) Russian: запрягать (ru) (zaprjagát’) Slovene: zapreči (sl)

See also

• Harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Harness in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.