Usually means: Control and utilize energy or resources.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. harness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. harness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harness: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harness: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harness: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harness, harness: Wordnik
  7. harness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. harness: Wiktionary
  9. harness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harness: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Harness, harness: Dictionary.com
  13. harness: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. harness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Harness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Harness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. harness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. harness: Rhymezone
  19. harness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. harness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Harness: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. harness: Free Dictionary
  23. harness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. harness: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. harness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. HARNESS: Acronym Finder
  3. harness: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Harness: Easton Bible
  2. HARNESS: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. harness: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Harness, harness: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  2. Harness: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See harnessed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps, and especially one worn by a working animal such as a horse pulling a carriage or farm implement.
noun:  (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
noun:  (dated, uncountable) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
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.
noun:  Equipment for any kind of labour.
verb:  (transitive) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
verb:  (transitive) To capture, control or put to use.
verb:  (transitive) To equip with armour.

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