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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
active
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
active cooperation
▪ There is active cooperation between the two schools.
active encouragement (=taking action as well as talking)
▪ The scheme was set up with the active encouragement of the local authority.
active participant
▪ an active participant in the negotiations
active service
▪ Powell was declared unfit for active service.
active support (=approval and help)
▪ Les, with the active support of his wife Pam, has spent several years compiling a list of the prisoners.
active (=it may erupt at any time)
▪ Mount Etna is still an active volcano.
active (=having the person or thing doing the action as the subject)
▪ Active verbs make your writing lively, personal and direct.
an active lifestyle (=in which you exercise)
▪ An active lifestyle has many health benefits.
an active member (=one who takes part in many activities of an organization)
▪ She was an active member of the church.
an active role (=when you do practical things to achieve particular aims)
▪ She took an active role in the community.
an active supporter
▪ He remained an active supporter of Greenpeace.
be active in politics (=be involved in)
▪ I was very active in politics before I retired.
economically active (=with a job, and so earning money)
▪ A lot of older women are not economically active.
live a quiet/active/healthy etc life
▪ She lives a very busy life.
physically active
▪ He remained physically active far into old age.
sb's active vocabulary (=the words they can use)
▪ Children of this age have an active vocabulary of about 1,000 words.
sexually active (=who regularly have sex)
▪ young people who are sexually active
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
economically
▪ Half the male population is economically active, compared to one-quarter of the female population.
▪ The General Household Survey in 1979 found that only 20 percent of economically active married men supported a dependent wife and children.
▪ About 63 percent. of women of working age with children are economically active.
▪ The numbers and proportions of those economically active in a sample of developed countries are shown in Table 1.5.
▪ As for the economically active, 56 percent were employed full- or part-time and 44 percent were unemployed.
▪ Before they became redundant some three years earlier, all of them had been economically active and in full-time employment.
▪ As Figure 2.8 shows, substantially more men than women are economically active.
politically
▪ Mansur Rajih had been politically active for most of his adult life.
▪ How might you assess whether most college students are politically active?
▪ Okay, so I was looking for a politically active, fat, drunk kleptomaniac.
▪ My connection to a politically active national organization had strengthened my hand immeasurably.
▪ A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country, as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed.
▪ Significantly, this elder bloc was far more politically active than any other age group.
▪ She calls on women to become politically active and not just accept their identities.
▪ Are older students more politically active?
sexually
▪ Positive images of sexually active fat women are absent from both mainstream and alternative media.
▪ On the other hand, he wanted to know what it was like to live as a sexually active human being.
▪ Hindu society, therefore, has always shown a nervousness about the sexually active woman.
▪ Of sexually active teenagers, most are married.
▪ It is a clear admission that you are sexually active, and parents may find this hard to deal with.
▪ A woman should begin having Pap smears as soon as she is sexually active, Thompson said.
▪ Remember that many women have been sexually active with men before realising that they were lesbians.
■ NOUN
citizenship
▪ Participatory democracy does need to be strengthened to promote active citizenship at local and national levels.
▪ In the schools we are observing such a transition to active citizenship is facilitated in a number of ways.
▪ Public institutions need to be democratised and decentralisation is necessary in the public domain in order to achieve active citizenship.
▪ Almost inadvertently, through such activity, structures emerged which promoted active citizenship through community education and development initiatives.
▪ Many feel political participation must be made worthwhile before active citizenship can occur.
▪ This centre will examine the non-economic benefits of learning such as social cohesion, active citizenship and improved health.
▪ General will should ensure the equality and liberty necessary for active citizenship -; taking collective decisions.
▪ Political disobedience is sanctioned as a possible expression of active citizenship on which a self-managing democracy is based.
disease
▪ Twelve patients with clinically active disease had normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate values; all of these had raised scan score.
▪ All patients had endoscopically active disease of various degrees.
▪ Laboratory tests are frequently normal in patients with unequivocally active disease and viceversa.
▪ One patient with active disease underwent colectomy 2 months later and developed renal insufficiency because of amyloid deposits 6 months later.
▪ The patients with active disease and the patients with disease in remission were younger than the controls.
▪ The laboratory tests lack specificity and can be normal in the presence of clinically active disease.
▪ Ten of these 15 patients had active disease but normal serum liver function tests.
▪ There are probably other factors also responsible for the differences in permeability observed between patients with and without active disease.
duty
▪ Scores of existing officers will be released for active duty by the creation of a police civil service.
▪ About 10 were interviewed, and nine remain on active duty.
▪ On Capitol Hill the number of policemen on active duty was doubled.
▪ He is the first commander-in-chief without active duty military experience since Franklin D.. Roosevelt.
▪ During its time in Oxfordshire it's seen active duty most recently in the Gulf War.
▪ They retired from active duty early in 1942.
▪ Lawyers said a general on active duty, Herna n Rami rez, was also indicted.
▪ The morning after the bombing, he re-ported for active duty.
ingredient
▪ Orthokeraten, the active ingredient of Icône, works to boost the process by which the epidermis renews itself every 28 days.
▪ By using bromocriptine, the company did not have to develop its own similar active ingredient for Ergoset.
▪ The active ingredient checks the growth of bacteria and so helps natural healing.
▪ This is why caffeine is the active ingredient in many prescription and nonprescription migraine treatments.
▪ Since 1986, 700 pesticides have been reviewed from which 350 active ingredients have been banned.
▪ If they can t tell us that, we need at least to know the active ingredients.
▪ Licorice Phytosome enhances better absorption of the active ingredients and increases their effectiveness for a prolonged period of time.
▪ The industry surveys are based on the amounts of active ingredients made for animals by the institute's member companies.
interest
▪ Do you buy environment-friendly products and take an active interest in nature?
▪ But women took an equally active interest in the policies of the firms where their funds were invested.
▪ Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts, and in particular promoted the neo-romantics.
▪ Their power derives primarily from an active interest Republic affairs and a willingness to work hard for causes in which they believe.
▪ Mrs Chan's departure should also prompt an active interest in Hong Kong from the international community.
▪ And if you do eat out regularly, you definitely should take an active interest in eating better restaurant food.
▪ Richardson took an active interest in women writers.
▪ If it had been Lucy in whom he had shown an active interest, Maureen would have been far from complacent.
involvement
▪ The latter is likely to provide some scope for active involvement in the worshipping and musical life of the parish.
▪ She has denied any active involvement.
▪ The most obvious change in nursing practice apparent to returners is the active involvement of patients and clients in their own care.
▪ And it begins with the active involvement of every manager.
▪ Some Democratic Unionists do precisely this by, for example, listing their active involvement with the Orders on their election literature.
▪ On the other hand, capitalist economies are based on the willing and active involvement of the very workers they are exploiting.
▪ The mounting of school productions and active involvement in community or touring theatre initiatives are thus of immense value.
▪ My active involvement and participation was due to my previous political experience.
life
▪ To many of them the active life seems more deserving because of the amount of good works and preaching it performs.
▪ Her body accepted the organ with hardly a problem and she resumed her active life.
▪ Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen.
▪ Sovereigns are born for an active life, and not for an idle or contemplative existence.
▪ He withdrew from active life and retired to Kenilworth where on the 4 January 1927 he died at the age of seventy-seven.
▪ Even though they were retired, they had been leading a very active life.
▪ Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life.
▪ Cyril's secret for a long and active life - treat yourself.
member
▪ Also notable are the animals and trees as active members of the mythic ensemble of players.
▪ He was an active member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool from 1837 onwards and served as its treasurer.
▪ Magill in Corte Madera, is president of club, which has 50 active members.
▪ He was an active member of the Educational Publishers Council.
▪ Myfanwy is also an active member of the Red Cross and helps organise holidays for the disabled.
▪ Packford was an active member of his local Labour Party, sympathetic to the idea of the paper, and liked Keith.
▪ In most branches active members who do actual work, not just attending committee meetings are few.
part
▪ Representatives from out-patient teams played a more active part in stressful daily decisions about child care management.
▪ I took but little active part in last row and am thus out of the scrape.
▪ And that is why, Lepold, you must take an active part in ordering the war against the Foundation.
▪ In old age she was troubled by deafness and played little active part in her husband's later political career.
▪ Robyn took an active part in student politics.
▪ Convinced that the general public had an unsatisfied thirst for knowledge, he took an active part in several educational activities.
▪ The active part of which is able to join mutually repellent substances such as oil and water.
participant
▪ A murder victim is not a stage-prop in the drama of his death but an active participant.
▪ Do you consider yourself an active participant in the political world?
▪ Nor, however, did he want to be an active participant.
▪ Be an active participant in the work of the schools.
▪ This section too starts with a premise, which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.
▪ Not only had Oregon State lost 13 straight, but the Bruins once again were active participants in their own demise.
▪ Jenks believed international organizations were not mere conference secretariats, but should be active participants in shaping the postwar world.
participation
▪ Attitudes toward active participation in the war opened deep fissures in the movement which, at the extreme, were never healed.
▪ And many respondents who mention active participation also mention the more parochial norms.
▪ Its success will depend on the active participation of many other bodies, large and small.
▪ The interaction assists both you and your client, since it evokes active participation in the imagination process from the client.
▪ Second, it highlighted the importance of active participation by elderly people themselves in all aspects of course planning.
▪ On active participation by the population in arts and sport: I' m in favour of experimentation but not compulsion.
▪ No such authoritative review of clinical ecology can occur without the active participation of proponents of the approach.
▪ But in order to respond fully, our active participation as spectators is very obviously called into play - as well as called into question.
role
▪ Take an active role in asking for appointments; most kinds of research benefit from discussion at least every month or so.
▪ Since his retirement from the military and his triumphant book tour, Powell has edged steadily toward an active role in politics.
▪ Developers were obliged to adopt a highly active role in locating land.
▪ The United States had not played an active role in these events.
▪ In a series of unprecedented government moves, the state defence council has taken an active role in helping the prosecution.
▪ The last several years, he has said he is prepared to take a more active role in the clubhouse.
▪ We are needing to learn active roles, to choose what we want and how to achieve it.
▪ So I also intend to take an active role speaking around the country.
service
▪ He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then.
▪ In 1914 Powell was declared unfit for active service, but joined the Admiralty in 1916.
▪ It was rather like being in the army on active service.
▪ They had two sons, one of whom died on active service in 1944, and one daughter.
▪ But his main passion was boating in Southampton Water and other waters calmer than those which had ended his active service career.
▪ The Provisionals said that one of their active service units had placed the devices, causing damage to prime commercial property.
▪ We accepted this as just one of the hazards of being on active service.
support
▪ The patron can call on his clients for active support, a facet which is important in local power struggles.
▪ Moreover, those who have helped you plan your communication will give it their active support. 5.
▪ Our opponents have money but little active support.
▪ The merits of these coalitions are that through direct discussions and active support they should raise as many questions as they pose.
▪ We shall continue to give full and active support to the United Nations.
▪ I hope we can count on his active support.
▪ However, if the result is a more effective birth control programme, it may gain her active support.
▪ It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers.
supporter
▪ The Midland Group has been an active supporter of the railway since 1955, both practically and financially.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
active ingredient
▪ By using bromocriptine, the company did not have to develop its own similar active ingredient for Ergoset.
▪ If they can t tell us that, we need at least to know the active ingredients.
▪ Licorice Phytosome enhances better absorption of the active ingredients and increases their effectiveness for a prolonged period of time.
▪ Orthokeraten, the active ingredient of Icône, works to boost the process by which the epidermis renews itself every 28 days.
▪ Since 1986, 700 pesticides have been reviewed from which 350 active ingredients have been banned.
▪ The active ingredient checks the growth of bacteria and so helps natural healing.
▪ The industry surveys are based on the amounts of active ingredients made for animals by the institute's member companies.
▪ This is why caffeine is the active ingredient in many prescription and nonprescription migraine treatments.
active/passive voice
▪ But, serious accidents can happen along the way when you use the passive voice.
▪ Explain the difference between the passive and active voice and wordy and concise word use as objectively as possible.
▪ In the active voice the subject of the sentence does the action.
▪ In the passive voice the subject does not do the action: it suffers the action.
▪ Secrets of the Passive Voice Revealed!
▪ This hypothesis requires further analysis of the passive voice before it can be considered confirmed however.
▪ Truth: Passive and active voice address a structural issue only-the relationship between the actor and the action in the sentence.
▪ Use only the active voice for procedures and employ it as much as possible for descriptions and operations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ active trading on the stock market
▪ Aaron seemed like a normal active baby until he was about ten months old.
▪ I'd been active all my life, and suddenly I had nothing to do.
▪ In Washington Harriman quickly became active in Democratic Party affairs.
▪ Jamie's a very active little kid!
▪ She may be over 80, but she's still very active!
▪ The alarm becomes active when the switch is turned on.
▪ They're both in their seventies, but they're still very active.
▪ Today there are over 5,000 active members in the Accra church.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bedwas and District Conservation Society in Gwent have been active in improving open spaces around their town.
▪ But a lot of people are active onshore and want to be active aboard ship.
▪ In this way the apparently active and positive concept of consent is diluted to the point of near vacuity.
▪ It is no coincidence that in the current recession, the big boys have been active again, though with mixed success.
▪ Keep your pride and remember you're not helpless just because you're not active any more.
▪ She should begin having Pap smears as soon as she is sexually active.
▪ They are not semi active just because they exist in you in your background knowledge.
▪ We want to keep her busy and active.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Active

Active \Ac"tive\, a. [F. actif, L. activus, fr. agere to act.]

  1. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.

  2. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.

    Active and nervous was his gait.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

  4. Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.

  5. Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.

  6. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.

  7. Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.

  8. Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.

  9. (Gram.)

    1. Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.

    2. Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

    3. Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

      Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

      Syn: Agile; alert; brisk; vigorous; nimble; lively; quick; sprightly; prompt; energetic.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
active

mid-14c., "given to worldly activity" (opposed to contemplative or monastic), from Old French actif (12c.) or directly from Latin activus, from actus (see act (n.)). As "capable of acting" (opposed to passive), from late 14c. Meaning "energetic, lively" is from 1590s; that of "working, effective, in operation" is from 1640s. Active voice is recorded from 1765 (grammatical use of active dates from mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
active

a. 1 Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives. 2 Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble. 3 In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; — opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct. 4 # (lb en specifically of a volcano) Being an active volcano. 5 Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; — opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert. 6 Requiring or implying action or exertion;—opposed to sedentary or to tranquil. 7 Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; — opposed to speculative or theoretical. 8 Brisk; lively. 9 Implying or producing rapid action. 10 (lb en heading grammar) ''About verbs.'' 11 # Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice. 12 # Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive. 13 # Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state. 14 (lb en gay sexual slang) (qualifier: of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner. n. A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting.

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WordNet
active

  1. adj. tending to become more severe or wider in scope; "active tuberculosis" [ant: inactive]

  2. engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces" [syn: combat-ready, fighting(a)]

  3. disposed to take action or effectuate change; "a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations"; "an active antagonism"; "he was active in drawing attention to their grievances" [ant: passive]

  4. taking part in an activity; "an active member of the club"; "he was politically active"; "the participating organizations" [syn: participating]

  5. characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action" [ant: inactive]

  6. exerting influence or producing an effect; "an active ingredient" [ant: inactive]

  7. full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; "an active seaport"; "an active bond market"; "an active account" [ant: inactive]

  8. in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition" [syn: alive(p)]

  9. of the sun; characterized by a high level activity in sunspots and flares and radio emissions [ant: quiet]

  10. expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions" [ant: passive]

  11. expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water') [syn: dynamic] [ant: stative]

  12. (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; "active volcanos" [ant: dormant, extinct]

  13. producing activity or change [ant: counteractive]

  14. engaged in full-time work; "active duty"; "though past retirement age he is still active in his profession" [ant: inactive]

  15. being in physical motion; "active fish in the aquarium"

  16. characterized by energetic bodily activity; "tennis is an active sport"; "a very physical dance performance" [syn: physical]

active

  1. n. chemical agent capable of activity [syn: active agent]

  2. 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" [syn: active voice] [ant: passive voice]

  3. a person devoted to the active life [ant: contemplative]

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Wikipedia
Active

Active may refer to:

Active (album)

Active is the 22nd album by the jazz fusion group Casiopea recorded and released in 1992. The album was recorded in Australia, Also where Casiopea's Live Album "Made in Melbourne" (and "We Want More", which continues the Live Set) was recorded.

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Usage examples of "active".

If the victim acquiesces, the sadistic offender may perceive her as an active participant in the assault.

A linking verb, one that expresses a state of being, always requires an adjective to complete its meaning, while an active verb does not.

This glorious deliverance would be speedily improved and magnified by the pious art of the clergy of Jerusalem, and the active credulity of the Christian world and, at the distance of twenty years, a Roman historian, careless of theological disputes, might adorn his work with the specious and splendid miracle.

On the first attack, they abandoned their ensigns, threw down their arms, and dispersed on all sides with an active speed, which abated the loss, whilst it aggravated the shame, of their defeat.

Keeping your mind active keeps arterial aging, immune aging, and even accidents in check, and has a RealAge benefit of making you 1.

On the contrary love, the active state of Ahimsa, requires you to resist the wrong-doer by dissociating yourself from him even though it may offend him or injure him physically.

When the glow of awareness touches them, they become active and can be aligned with the corresponding emanations at large.

Junior League, an active Kappa alumna, something in the hospital auxiliary, and something else at the country club.

The active Kappa Theta Etas, the alumnae, the missing one, and even the deceased one qualified for some role in the muddlesome puzzle.

The Campus had been active just over nineteen months, and that time had mostly been spent in establishing their cover as a trading and arbitrage business.

Consequently, the archbishop promulgated an act, in which he deprived the fathers of the Society of the privilege of preaching throughout the archbishopric, of the titles of synodal examiners, and of active and passive right of assembly with the secular priests and the orders both in public acts and in other functions, in consideration of the fact that they refused to concur in the defense of the rights of the ecclesiastical estate.

Here were sister planets, celestial twins with one difference: this world, Argentil, after billions of years of active presence in the human community, had dropped all contact and refused to respond to any signals.

Between September, 1940, and September, 1941, it was raised from twenty-six active divisions to thirty-four, plus five armoured divisions.

Convention, to take an active part in all its proceedings, and to acquaint his fellow-workers on his return with the accomplishments, the decisions and the aspirations of the assembled representatives of the American believers.

By itself, neither was particularly important or active, but together they reacted with each other atomically to release a tremendous amount of raw heat and comparatively little unwanted radiation.