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Active

adjective

1.

Tending to become more severe or wider in scope.

2.

Engaged in or ready for military or naval operations. Synonyms: combat-ready, fighting. "The platoon is combat-ready" , "Review the fighting forces"

3.

Disposed to take action or effectuate change. "An active antagonism" , "He was active in drawing attention to their grievances"

4.

Taking part in an activity. Synonym: participating. "He was politically active" , "The participating organizations"

5.

Characterized by energetic activity. "Active as a gazelle" , "An active man is a man of action"

6.

Exerting influence or producing a change or effect.

7.

Full of activity or engaged in continuous activity. "An active bond market" , "An active account"

8.

In operation. Synonym: alive. "The tradition was still alive" , "An active tradition"

9.

(of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions.

10.

Expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:.

11.

(used of verbs (e.g. 'to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. 'running' in 'running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being. Synonym: dynamic.

12.

(of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting.

13.

(of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt.

14.

Engaged in full-time work. "Though past retirement age he is still active in his profession"

noun

1.

Chemical agent capable of activity. Synonym: active agent.

2.

The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb. Synonym: active voice.

3.

A person who is a participating member of an organization.

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"Active" Quotes from Famous Books

... to redeem his promise. For Lady Calmady's convalescence was slow. An apathy held her, which was tranquillising rather than tedious. She was glad to lie still and rest. She found it very soothing to be shut away from the many obligations of active life for a while; to watch the sunlight, on fair days, shift from east by south to west, across the warm fragrant room; to see the changing clouds in the delicate spring sky, and the slow-dying crimson and violet of the sunset; ...

— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... these are the tiger snake, Hoplocephalus curtus, the most widespread, active, and dangerous of them all: the brown snake, Diemenia superciliosa, pretty ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... community. Civic consciousness had not been born in them, for the simple reason that the city was constituted perfectly to suit them. Only when men are dissatisfied with their government do they seek to become responsible for it. There was no active public opinion against them. Men were too busy to bother with such things. Occasionally a fairly vigorous protest against some peculiarly outrageous steal made itself heard, but the men who made it ...

— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

... was using her own with the tactical nimbleness of the feminine mind. She knew the twins were down on the boiler deck again, one faint, yet both pursuing, egged on by him of the stallion's eye and him of the eagle's, and all the more socially and dangerously active because, by strict orders to every one, cut off from the gaming-table and the bar. She could not do a hundred things at once—though she could do six or seven—and it was well to grapple this one task first. Thus she kept Hugh ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... one's self against a wall. She never swerved from her position, her voice never lost its tone of studied toleration; and now he sat, the poor fellow! listening dreamily to the conversation between the other two men, too weary and depressed to take any active share in it himself. ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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