Definition of active

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

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Sinecure :: Sinecure (n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service..
Rife :: Rife (a.) Having power; active; nimble.
Enactive :: Enactive (a.) Having power to enact or establish as a law.
Energetical :: Energetical (a.) Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active.
Easy-going :: Easy-going (a.) Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive..
Sally :: Sally (v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind..
Emmetropia :: Emmetropia (n.) That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism..
Remedy :: Remedy (n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to..
Stupefacient :: Stupefacient (a.) Producing stupefaction; stupefactive.
Energize :: Energize (v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will..
Effective :: Effective (n.) One who is capable of active service.
Resistance :: Resistance (n.) The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active..
Contemplative :: Contemplative (n.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity..
Bustler :: Bustler (n.) An active, stirring person..
Inanimate :: Inanimate (a.) Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances..
Cicutoxin :: Cicutoxin (n.) The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.
Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus
Dioptre :: Dioptre (n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.
Calefactive :: Calefactive (a.) See Calefactory.
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active..
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