engaging or ready to engage in physically energetic pursuits.
Example: although he was seventy he was still robust and active
pursuing an occupation or activity at a particular place or in a particular way.
Example: the artist was active in the 1920s
(of a thing) working; operative.
Example: 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 ).
