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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

... down his head to a permanent rakish angle. He caught sight of me—trumpeted like a siren in the Channel fog—and came at me with raised ears and trunk outstretched. I heard shooting to the left, and more shots from the forest, where the very active ghost or madman was keeping up a battle of his own. I felt the fear, that turns a man's very heart to ice, grip hold of me—felt as if nothing mattered—imagined the whole universe a sea of charging elephants—accepted the inevitable—and ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... out of his mouth when the following events happened all in a couple of seconds. The kitchen door was opened roughly, a heavy but active man darted up the stairs without any manner of disguise, and a single ponderous blow sent the door not only off its hinges, but right across the room on to Denys's fortification, which it struck so rudely as nearly ...

— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade

... The most active god, the Dane's chief god (as Frey is the Swede's god, and patriarch), is "Woden". He appears in heroic life as patron of great heroes and kings. Cf. "Hyndla-Lay", where it ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... don't," but there is little chance of making a mistake. However, with three genders, five declensions for nouns, a fixed method of comparison for adjectives and adverbs, an elaborate system of pronouns, with active and deponent, regular and irregular verbs, four conjugations, and a complex synthetical method of forming the moods and tenses, the pitfalls for the unwary Roman were without number, as the present-day ...

— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott

... drew rein before a squalid and dilapidated hut. Eddie gasped. It was Jose's, and Jose was a notorious scoundrel whom old age alone kept from the active pursuit of the only calling he ever had known—brigandage. Why should the boss's daughter come to Jose? Jose was hand in glove with every cutthroat in Chihuahua, or at least within a radius of two hundred miles of ...

— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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