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active
Adjective
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If someone is active, he or she does exercise often or participates often.
She was such an active 80-year-old that she ran the .
Jenkins is an active member of the since he goes to all the meetings.
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A sentence is active if its subject does the action.
"Athena helped Odysseus" is an active sentence because Athena is the one who helped.
server
Noun
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A server is a type of computer that people can access through the Internet to visit a website.
I recently bought a server to host my online shop.
page
Noun
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A page is one side of a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper, etc.
The picture of the accident was on page one of the morning's paper.
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A page is a sheet of paper in a book, newspaper, etc.
This book has one page missing.
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A page is the part of a document that you can see at one time on a computer screen.
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A web page is a computer document that can be accessed over the internet.
This site has some of the most visited pages on the web.
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A page is a young person whose job is to help important people like knights, or members of parliament.
The pages passed out copies of the new law.
page
Verb
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If you page someone, make an announcement or send them a message asking them to contact you.
Paging Dr. Horvat! Please, contact the nursing station.
If you need me, just have them page me at the restaurant.
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If you page forward, back, through, etc. something with pages, you move from one page to another.
I paged through the magazine, just looking at the pictures.
Use the mouse to page down to the next screen.
buffer
Noun
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A buffer is a physical object at the end of a train line which stops the train going any further.
Trains stop at the buffers.
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A buffer (figurative) is an end-zone.
That is a buffer to prevent war. No military people may cross it.
A telomere is a buffer at the ends of a chromosome.
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A buffer (computer software) is a zone that can be read and written to. It usually holds back data until it is fine to be used.
Let's try to turn off the buffering setting in the game's video settings.