0 busy with a particular activity: --
1 involved in a particular activity: --
2 An active volcano is one that might erupt (= throw out hot liquid rock or other matter) at any time. --
3 An active verb or sentence is one in which the subject is the person or thing that performs the stated action: --
4 → the active voice --
5 doing something as you usually do, or being able to do something physically or mentally: --
Thus, this ratio is a performance measure that indicates the value added by active management to the strategic policy.
Responses determined to be scorable were utterances that had sufficient structure to be deemed full or partial passive sentences or full or partial active sentences.
Our second test of the development of coping assessed relations between the adolescent trajectories of coping and active, avoidant, and cognitive coping in young adulthood.
The active learning of teachers alongside students in teaching- learning processes is emphasized.
The lower degree of depth-mediated inhibition in no-till may increase the percentage of active seed bank, thereby reducing the amount of older seeds.
We have much less information about whether the patients in the trials also had evidence of active psychotic phenomena in addition to any depressive symptoms.
One problem is certainly motivation: the language is taught at school in a way that does not encourage active use or involvement.
Such sentences with an active sentence construction but a reversal of thematic roles were absent from the data.