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`adjective
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`said of a person, etc: moving, working and doing things; full of energy.
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`said of a machine, etc: operating; working.
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`3.
`having an effect the active ingredients.
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`4.
`said of a volcano: liable to erupt; not extinct.
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`physics radioactive.
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`grammar (abbreviation act.)
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`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 (/content/entry/1219412).
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`denoting or relating to the verb in such a construction.
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`noun grammar
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`(also active voice) the form or forms that an active verb takes.
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`an active verb or construction.
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`Derivative
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`actively adverb.
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`[14c: from Latin activus.]
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