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Active
ACT'IVE, a. [L. activus.]
1. That has the power or quality of acting; that contains the principle of action, independent of any visible external force; as, attraction is an active power: or it may be defined, that communicates action or motion, opposed to passive, that receives action; as, the active powers of the mind.
2. Having the power of quick motion, or disposition to move with speed; nimble; lively; brisk; agile; as an active animal.
Hence,
3. Busy; constantly engaged in action; pursuing business with vigor and assiduity; opposed to dull, slow, or indolent; as an active officer. It is also opposed to sedentary, as an active life.
4. Requiring action or exertion; practical; operative; producing real effects; opposed to speculative; as, the active duties of life.
5. In grammar, active verbs are those which not only signify action, but have a noun or name following them, denoting the object of the action or impression; called also transitive, as they imply the passing of the action expressed by the verb to the object; as a professor instructs his pupils.
6. Active capital, or wealth, is money, or property that may readily be converted into money, and used in commerce or other employment for profit.
7. Active commerce, the commerce in which a nation carries its own productions and foreign commodities in its own ships, or which is prosecuted by its own citizens; as contradistinguished from passive commerce, in which the productions of one country are transported by the people of another country.
The commerce of Great Britain and of the United States is active; that of China is passive.
It may be the interest of foreign nations to deprive us, as far as possible, of an active commerce in our own bottoms.
active appears in definitions for these words:
Ability Active Actively Activeness Activity Actor Adroit Advertising Agent Agile Alert Animosity Approbation Archeus Beneficence Bright Brisk Briskly Busily Busk Bustle Bustler Bustling Busy Capacity Cochineal Commerce Concenter Dapper Deponent Despite Dextrous Dilapidation Disable Dissociable Dualistic Effective Efficience Elatin Energetic Energize Enliven Enlivened Enterprising Exert Expedite Expeditious Expensive Experience Faint Favor Field Fiery Flower Force Forcible Fortitude Galliard Grenadier Heartily Heathful Heavy-handed Hobby Inactive Incapability Inefficient Inert Informtion Inoperative Inspire Insurgent Insurrection Invalid Languish Leany Light Lightfooted Lively Lust Mercurial Merit Mind Mortification Mortify Murmur Neutral Notable Operative Passion Passive Poison Power Practical Principle Providence Quick Quiver Redeem Remain Resist Resistance Resort Retroactive Revival Righteousness Serviceable Sharpen Slack Sleep Slow Smartly Snell Soul Spark Spiritous Spirituous Spring Spry Stagnant Stagnate Strangely Strenuous Strenuously Strenuousness Strong Syllable Take Unactive Vegete Vignette Vigorous Vigorously Vigorousness Virulence Virulent Vivacious Vivid Voice Volant Voluble Vomic Wake Warbler Wimble Wrest
Ability Active Actively Activeness Activity Actor Adroit Advertising Agent Agile Alert Animosity Approbation Archeus Beneficence Bright Brisk Briskly Busily Busk Bustle Bustler Bustling Busy Capacity Cochineal Commerce Concenter Dapper Deponent Despite Dextrous Dilapidation Disable Dissociable Dualistic Effective Efficience Elatin Energetic Energize Enliven Enlivened Enterprising Exert Expedite Expeditious Expensive Experience Faint Favor Field Fiery Flower Force Forcible Fortitude Galliard Grenadier Heartily Heathful Heavy-handed Hobby Inactive Incapability Inefficient Inert Informtion Inoperative Inspire Insurgent Insurrection Invalid Languish Leany Light Lightfooted Lively Lust Mercurial Merit Mind Mortification Mortify Murmur Neutral Notable Operative Passion Passive Poison Power Practical Principle Providence Quick Quiver Redeem Remain Resist Resistance Resort Retroactive Revival Righteousness Serviceable Sharpen Slack Sleep Slow Smartly Snell Soul Spark Spiritous Spirituous Spring Spry Stagnant Stagnate Strangely Strenuous Strenuously Strenuousness Strong Syllable Take Unactive Vegete Vignette Vigorous Vigorously Vigorousness Virulence Virulent Vivacious Vivid Voice Volant Voluble Vomic Wake Warbler Wimble Wrest
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