(a.) Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.
(a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.
(a.) In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
(a.) Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.
(a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.
(a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.
(a.) Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.
(a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.
(a.) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.
(a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
(a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(5) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(6) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
(7) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(8) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(12) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(13) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(14) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(15) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(16) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(17) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(18) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(19) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(20) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
Spry
Definition:
(superl.) Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
(2) Harry was brought into the room in a wheelchair - little and frail but, given his great age, astonishingly spry-looking.
(3) She has spry, bright eyes which match her curly blonde locks, and there’s a playful elegance in the vivid turquoise scarf and pink necklace she wears against her black outfit.
(4) But Winning’s got an attractively impish spirit and there are some spry jokes here.
(5) Matthew Spry is director at planning consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners Interested in housing?
(6) Spry little David is the last surviving grandson of John D. It was Granddad Rockefeller who famously declared competition a sin, and built one of the world's great fortunes.
(7) But governments are forever telling us that this global corporate entity is in fact an agile, mobile and spry creature; that companies will relocate, taking jobs and tax revenue with them rather than succumb to any legislation that will limit their ability to extract as much profit as possible.
(8) Recent evidence suggests that although the eosinophil does posses some regulatory capabilities, its presence is, in fact, a harbinger of tissue destruction (Gleich and Adolphoson, 1986, Wardlaw and Kay, 1987; Spry, 1988).
(9) The cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, Eunice Spry – a Jehovah's Witness who forced sticks down the throats of her foster children and made them eat their own vomit – or Khyra Ishaq, who was starved to death because her Muslim mother and stepfather believed she was possessed by an evil spirit, were all received in horror and condemned by their faith communities.
(10) My mother-in-law is a reasonably spry, mentally alert 87-year-old.
(11) Shanbag, a spry, watchful man in his mid-50s, smiles quietly when I ask.
(12) These proteins were designated sprI and sprII (small, proline rich).
(13) It would have been amusing to see Barry Bonds rise up as a spry shooting guard only to suddenly become a center after seeing how many commercials they were giving Shaq.
(14) The plan then is to be put through his paces by Roger Spry, a highly respected fitness and conditioning coach whom Bamford has employed at his own expense to get him in the best possible shape for a shot at the big time.
(15) Spry and alert at 89, Luis Iriondo Aurtenetxea sat down with me in the offices of Gernika Gogoratuz, which means "Remembering Gernika" in the Basque language.
(16) Chabrol's last two films, La Fille Coupée en Deux (A Girl Cut in Two, 2007) and Bellamy (2009), both mordant crime thrillers with a valedictory nod to Hitchcock, showed him to be as spry as ever.
(17) The new proteins were designated sprI and sprII (small, proline rich).
(18) His film is a spry, experimental mix of narrative trickery and visual intelligence, a self-referential noir, featuring sex, drugs, murder and a minor role for the excellent Kenneth Cranham as a London detective trying to sell a movie script.
(19) Good!” said a spry-looking Bill Clinton , wearing light blue pants and a dark shirt, after Obama made his putt on the first hole at Farm Neck golf club in Oak Bluffs.