active
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active/ˈaktɪv/
▶adjective
- 1 moving or tending to move about vigorously or frequently.
■ (of a person's mind or imagination) alert and lively.
- 2 participating in a particular sphere or activity.
- 3 working or in operation.
- 4 Grammar denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject is typically the person or thing performing the action and which can take a direct object (e.g. she loved him as opposed to he was loved). The opposite of passive.
- 5 (of a volcano) erupting or having erupted in historical times.
- 6 (of a disease) not in remission or latent.
- 7 having a chemical or biological effect on something.
- 8 (of an electric circuit) capable of modifying its state or characteristics automatically in response to input or feedback.
– derivatives
actively adverb.
actively adverb.
– origin ME: from L. activus, from act-, agere ‘act, do’.
'active' also found in these Oxford entries:
actant
- activate
- active immunity
- active list
- active matrix
- active service
- active site
- active transport
- actual
- agent
- airhead
- alert
- alive
- angel shark
- animal
- antagonism
- antibacterial
- antimicrobial
- awake
- base hospital
- binding site
- bioavailability
- brisk
- butterfly
- campaign
- cannabinol
- cephalopod
- coalface
- comprise
- demobilize
- deponent
- digitalin
- dihydrotestosterone
- East Indiaman
- eggar
- excipient
- excitant
- extract
- fitful
- floruit
- gastric juice
- ginger group
- go
- HAART
- hand
- hard core
- holoenzyme
- Holy Spirit
- hopping
