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active: see voice voice, grammatical category according to which an action is referred to as done by the subject (active, e.g., men shoot bears) or to the subject (passive, e.g., bears are shot by men). In Latin, voice is a category of inflection like mood or tense. ..... Click the link for more information. . active 1. (of a volcano) erupting periodically; not extinct 2. Astronomy (of the sun) exhibiting a large number of sunspots, solar flares, etc., and a marked variation in intensity and frequency of radio emission 3. Commerce a. producing or being used to produce profit, esp in the form of interest b. of or denoting stocks or shares that have been actively bought and sold as recorded in the Official List of the London Stock Exchange 4. Electronics a. containing a source of power b. capable of amplifying a signal or controlling some function How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Pursued by two very active young men armed with fire-hardened spears, tottering along with incredible swiftness on his two spindle legs, Kwaque had fallen exhausted at Daughtry's feet and looked up at him with the beseeching eyes of a deer fleeing from the hounds. Now Nietzsche believed that the first or the noble-morality conduced to an ascent in the line of life; because it was creative and active. From such special adaptations, the similarity of the larvae or active embryos of allied animals is sometimes much obscured; and cases could be given of the larvae of two species, or of two groups of species, differing quite as much, or even more, from each other than do their adult parents. |
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