harness

English

Harness on a capybara

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəs

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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 挽具 (cmn) (wǎnjù)

• Finnish: valjaat (fi) pl
• French: harnais (fr) m
• German: Geschirr (de) n, Pferdegeschirr (de) n, Gurt (de) m, Anschnallgurt (de) m
• Hungarian: hám (hu)
• Irish: gabháil (ga) m
• Italian: braca (it) f, imbragatura (it) f, imbrago (it) m
• Japanese: 馬具 (ja) (ばぐ, bagu)
• Jèrriais: graie 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 , упряжка (ru) (uprjážka) 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)
• Spanish: arnés (es) m

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.