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active adjective assiduous, at work, busily emmloyed, busily engaged, busy, effective, effectual, efficient, energetic, enterprising, functioning, impiger, in a state of action, in actual process, in operation, in practice, industrious, industrius, navus, operant, performing, sedulous, trenchant, vigorous, working
Associated concepts: active concealment, active negligence, active participant, active tort feasor, active trust, active wrongdoing, passive negligence, passive tort feasor

ACTIVE. The opposite, of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us; passive debts are those we owe.

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This finding was consistent with an active transport mechanism across the placenta.

Transplacental chikungunya virus antibody kinetics, Thailand by Nisalak, Ananda / Emerging Infectious Diseases

Others have suggested that nitrate or the reduced form (nitrite) may pass to the fetus through a system of active transport similar to that of iodide, and fetal nitrate plasma levels may exceed that of the mother (Hartman 1982).

A review of nitrates in drinking water: maternal exposure and adverse ... by Moll, Deborah M. / Environmental Health Perspectives

Interestingly, from a separate questionnaire sent home for parents to complete, the majority of parents (77%) stated they either walked or cycled to school themselves as 10-year-olds, indicating a substantial decrease in active transport in only one generation.

Barriers to physical activity in young New Zealanders by Ross, Jenny J. / Youth Studies Australia

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