excite-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: Arouse or stimulate, possibly sexually; stir the emotions or peace of; cause to be agitated or roused.

Commentary:
NOTE: Includes both animate and inanimate PATIENT

Examples:
The speaker excited the crowd.
This movie usually excites the male audience.
The murder reports excited the normally calm community.
The book excited her imagination.
Everything at this restaurant excites my appetite.

Mappings:
VerbNet: amuse-31.1
FrameNet: Experiencer-obj
PropBank: excite.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Sense Number 2: Raise to a higher energy level (as in physics)

Commentary:
NOTE: Excitement is of atoms.

Examples:
The two primary ways to excite an atom are through absorbing light
and through collisions.
The laser can excite atoms for a range of wavelengths.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7

Sense Number 3: Produce an electrical transmission (and subsequently a magnetic field) by exciting neurons or items characterized as neurons.

Commentary:
NOTE: Electrical transmission may involve the transmission of information through a mechanism.

Examples:
Hippocampal pyramidal cells excite inhibitory neurons through a
single release site.
Endogenous GABA can excite GnRH neurons.
He presents his card to the cashier who swipes it through a terminal
providing information which excites a neuron of code.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 8