Word Meanings - PASSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

• Actuation
  A bringing into action; movement.
• Receivership
  The state or office of a receiver.
• ACTINOMYCOSIS
  A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.
• Actinograph
  An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
• Actinozoon
  One of the Actinozoa.
• Actress
  A female actor or doer.
• Actuator
  One who actuates, or puts into action.
• ACTINOPHONE
  An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.
• Actinoid
  Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.
• Actinula
  A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
• Actual
  Involving or comprising action; active.
• Actuose
  Very active.
• Sceneful
  Having much scenery.
• ACTINOPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.
• Actinolite
  A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
• Action
  A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action o
• Actualist
  One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist.

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