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NGSL Rank: 1351
active
ˈaktɪv Listen
Meanings
adjective
  • engaging or ready to engage in physically energetic pursuits.
    E.g. although he was seventy he was still robust and active
  • pursuing an occupation or activity at a particular place or in a particular way.
    E.g. the artist was active in the 1920s
  • (of a thing) working; operative.
    E.g. the old watermill was active until 1960
  • 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 the passive form he was loved ).
noun
  • an active form of a verb.

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