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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.
content
Noun
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The contents of a container, such as a bag, a file, a book etc., are the things that are in it.
A couple of green plastic bags had torn open, and the contents had spilled out onto the floor.
Scientists examined the contents of the dead bird's stomach.
The students were generally happy with the course content and the instructor.
More writing could improve students' content knowledge as well as their writing skills.
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The fat, water, alcohol, etc. content of something is the amount of that substance in something else.
The red wine had a deep color and high alcohol content.
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Content is the feeling of being happy and satisfied.
She could sleep to her heart's content.
content
Adjective
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If someone is content, they are happy and satisfied.
She had always been perfectly content to live in the city.
Women with many friends are actually less content with their lives than those with a smaller group of friends.
content
Verb
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If somebody contents themselves with something, they accept it even though they wanted something different.