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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.
node
Noun
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A node is a centre point, where parts meet.
The railway station was the town's transport node where all the buses stopped.
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A node is a swelling or a lump.
The doctor examined his armpit to feel the lymph node.
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A node is a swelling on a plant which becomes a new branch or leaf.
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A node is the point on a wave where the amplitude is zero.
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A node is the point on an orbit where it crosses a plane.
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(computing) A node is a computer in the context of a network.