Living vs Active - What's the difference?
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Having life.
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In use or existing.
Of everyday life.
True to life.
(uncountable) The state of being alive.
Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
A style of life.
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.
Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
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Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
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In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; — opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct.
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# Being an active volcano.
Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; — opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
Requiring or implying action or exertion;—opposed to sedentary or to tranquil.
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Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; — opposed to speculative or theoretical.
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Brisk; lively.
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Implying or producing rapid action.
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About verbs.
#Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.
#Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
#Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
(lb) (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.
As verbs the difference between living and active
is that living is while active is .As an adjective living
is having life.As a noun living
is (uncountable) the state of being alive.living
English
(wikipedia living)Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- Hunanese is a living language.
- These living conditions are deplorable.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Antonyms
* dead * nonlivingDerived terms
* living death * living end * livingly * living room * living thing * living willNoun
- What do you do for a living ?
- plain living