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Active Voice

Definition: Active Voice

Active Voice

Noun

1. The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb; "`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Active Voice

DomainDefinitions

Language

Category which identifies the subject of a sentence as the actor and the object as the goal, with respect to the action or process denoted by the verb. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Active Voice

Synonym: active (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: passive (n), passive voice (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Active Voice

English words defined with "active voice": active. (references)
Specialty definitions using "active voice": Computing Devices Canada Ltd.. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Active Voice

DomainTitle

References

  • Active Voice Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Active voice (reference)

  • ACTIVE VOICE CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • In the Active Voice (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Active Voice

CountryName
USA

Active Voice Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Active Voice

Expression using "active voice": the active voice. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Active Voice

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

active voice

50

passive active voice

32
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Active Voice

Language Translations for "active voice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

aktiv (active, asset, assets, in action). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bedrývende vorm (assets). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

aktiva voĉo. (various references)

   

French

  

actif (active, in action). (various references)

   

German

  

Aktiv (active, actively, energetic, in action, on active service, practicing, radioactive, the active voice, work team, working). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ενεργητική φωνή. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אפן פעיל. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

cselekvő igealak, cselekvő alak. (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

germynd. (various references)

   

Italian

  

attivo (active, alive, assets, brisk, busy, hardworking, in action, industrious, instrumental, lively, practicing, practising, spry, strenuous, working). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

能動態 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

のうどうたい. (various references)

   

Manx

  

fwee jantagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

activeay oicevay

   

Portuguese

  

voz ativa. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

diatezã activã. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

aktiv. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

activo (abuzz, active, alert, alive, asset, assets, bouncy, brisk, bustling, deedful, enabled, hardworking, humming, in action, N 10, radioactive, resources, spry, tangible, transitive, U10, up and doing), voz activa. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

etken çatı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Active Voice

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-i-o-t-v-v"

-2 letters: evocative.

-3 letters: coactive, vocative.

-5 letters: acetic, active, avocet, coatee, octave, viatic, vivace, votive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Active Voice


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 74 69 76 65      56 6F 69 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01010110 01101111 01101001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#86 &#111 &#105 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065      0056 006F 0069 0063 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35698675887125681756971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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