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active
English
- 🔊 characterized by energetic activity“an active toddler”
- 🔊 engaged in full-time work“active duty”
- 🔊 full of activity or engaged in continuous activity“an active seaport”
- 🔊 tending to become more severe or wider in scope“active tuberculosis”
- 🔊 disposed to take action or effectuate change“a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations”
- 🔊 (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt“active volcanos”
- 🔊 (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting
- 🔊 (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
- 🔊 expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions"
- 🔊 exerting influence or producing a change or effect“an active ingredient”
- 🔊 (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions
- 🔊 in operation“keep hope alive”
- 🔊 taking part in an activity“an active member of the club”
- 🔊 engaged in or ready for military or naval operations“on active duty”
- 🔊 a person who is a participating member of an organization“the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees”
- 🔊 the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb“`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice”
- 🔊 chemical agent capable of activity
Spanish
- 🔊 activo active
- 🔊 en actividad active