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inactive English

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What does inactive mean?
Definitions in simple English

inactive

Not active, lazy or idle. If someone is inactive, they are no longer on duty or in the service.

inactive

(chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert desired amounts of inactive chlorine (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly lacking activity; lying idle or unused an inactive mine inactive accounts inactive machinery not active physically or mentally illness forced him to live an inactive life dreamy and inactive by nature not engaged in full-time work inactive reserve an inactive member not exerting influence or change not in physical motion the inertia of an object at rest (= nonoperational) (military) not involved in military operations (= dormant) (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct a dormant volcano (= passive) lacking in energy or will Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself — George Meredith

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Simple sentences

Long after you've become inactive, your mistakes, if not corrected, will live on to mislead future users.
You are as inactive as a bagpiper's pinky.
Olympus Mons, an inactive volcano on Mars, spreads over an area as large as the state of Arizona.

Movie subtitles

We must remain inactive for a while.
Inactive? You are utterly mistaken.
I was inactive and yet I was.
The answer simply didn't interest her. but that's because we're dealing with two inactive chemicals.
How long have you been inactive in the church, Mr. Shannon?
I have been inactive in the church for all but one year since I was ordained a minister of the church.
Lying down, asleep. inactive, I can get by for an hour before taking a booster.
I suppose we're lucky really to have kept him inactive as long as we have.
They may not remain inactive long.
They're inactive because they divided but we don't know for how long, So, come on!
Quite inactive.
Their bodies inactive, as a machine.
I give you my firm pledge, Krasis, the crystal is totally inactive.
Second, we've got to make sure that their army stays inactive and third, we've got to generally put an end to their chances of invasion of other planets.
If you insist upon my leaving, thereby causing me to suffer a relapse I shall sue you for every additional day I am held inactive which will amount, I assure you, to a tidy sum.
We're abandoning the dam. We must remain inactive.
Inactive?
My men have been inactive lately, and I thought a little basket-weaving would be a help.
It is inactive.
According to the report from your team, the virus was considered inactive.
My hands have been inactive all this time but I've worked my brain.
We regret that your file will be placed in the inactive list.
Identity, Starfleet inactive.
It proven to be a highly unstable material. transportable only in its inactive cycle.
Ian, everyone in the business community knows. that these are inactive corporations.
Mr. Melrose wants us to check all the inactive accounts, right?
You might as well just admit it, you were not meant to be inactive.
I couldn't be inactive.
A weak, inactive worker.
Inactive.
It's been inactive since we found it.
You remember I told you about sleepers, the inactive agents?
Geordi, the engine core is completely inactive.
He's inactive, pending the investigation.
This branched DNA is inactive.
His nervous system should be inactive.
How long will I remain inactive?
The EMH is inactive.

News and current affairs

If the US and Europe choose to remain inactive, they must at least encourage Egypt to play its role.
But EU institutions have not been entirely inactive.
In principle, even inactive immigrants will then be eligible for social-welfare benefits, just like nationals.
By the middle of the century - unless there is a dramatic turnaround - about half the population will be economically inactive for reasons of age.
As a result, more money than ever is now frozen or inactive in China.
For the world, this trend has been more decisive: maximum ACE was reached in 1994, and has plummeted for the past three years, while hurricanes around the world have for the past year been about as inactive as at any time since records began being kept.
The PA prime minister, Salam Fayyad, like his Hamas counterparts in Gaza, rules by decree, keeps parliament inactive, and silences the opposition.
So, for most raped Swedish women, the shelters are full, the hotlines inactive, and the police selectively look the other way - that is, unless they are busy chasing down a globally famous suspect.
Because Germany still restricts the immigration of dependent workers from eastern EU countries, most of its immigrants come as self-employed or economically inactive people.

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