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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
    4. Said of a volcano: liable to erupt; not extinct.
    5. physics.
      Radioactive.
    6a. grammar.
      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;
    6b. grammar.
      Denoting or relating to the verb in such a construction.
noun
    1. The form or forms that an active verb takes.
      Form: active voice (also)
    2. An active verb or construction.
Derivative: actively
adverb
    Etymology: 14c: from Latin activus.



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