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active
adj
- 1. Said of a person, etc: moving, working and doing things; full of energy.
2. Said of a machine, etc: operating; working.
3. Having an effect.
- Example: the active ingredients
5. physics.
- Radioactive.
- Denoting or relating to a verbal construction in which the subject performs the action or has the state described by the verb, as in the man fell, smoking kills you and God exists. Compare passive;
- Denoting or relating to the verb in such a construction.
- 1. The form or forms that an active verb takes.
- Form: active voice (also)
adverb
