| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, occupied |
| Synonyms: | alive, busy, dynamic, effective, employed, engaged, functioning, going, hot*, in a job, in force, in full swing, in gear, in process, laboring, live, moving, on fire, on the job, on track, operative, practical, running, useful, viable |
| Antonyms: | idle, inoperative, passive, unoccupied, unworking |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manipulate, operate |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, act, behave, bring about, carry out, cause, contrive, control, create, direct, drive, effect, execute, force, function, go, handle, implement, manage, maneuver, move, perform, ply, progress, react, run, serve, take, tick, use, wield |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cultivate, form |
| Synonyms: | care for, dig, dress, farm, fashion, handle, knead, labor, make, manipulate, mold, process, shape, tend, till |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, going, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, shifting, simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling, turning, walking, working |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | abeyant, dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | alive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being animately existent |
| Synonyms: | animate, around, awake, breathing, cognizant, conscious, dynamic, existing, extant, functioning, growing, knowing, live, living, mortal, operative, running, subsisting, viable, vital, working, zoetic |
| Antonyms: | dead, deceased, inanimate, lifeless |
| Main Entry: | busy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | engaged, at work |
| Synonyms: | active, already taken, assiduous, at it, buried, diligent, employed, engaged, engrossed, having a full plate, having enough on one's plate, having fish to fry, having many irons in the fire, hustling, in a meeting, in conference, in someone else's possession, in the field, in the laboratory, industrious, occupied, on assignment, on duty, on the go, overloaded, persevering, slaving, snowed, swamped, tied up, unavailable, up to one's ears, with a customer, working |
| Antonyms: | idle, quiet, unbusy, unemployed, unengaged |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land for growing |
| Synonyms: | agrology, agronomics, agronomy, farming, gardening, horticulture, planting, plowing, tillage, tilling, working |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | engaged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | operating; busy |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, at work, committed, connected with, dealing in, deep, doing, employed, engrossed, immersed, in place, in use, intent, interested, involved, occupied, performing, practicing, preoccupied, pursuing, rapt, signed, tied up, unavailable, working, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | disengaged, inoperable, not working |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | energetic, vigorous |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, brisk, burning, controversial, current, dynamic, earnest, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, functioning, hot*, lively, operative, pertinent, pressing, prevalent, running, topical, unsettled, vital, vivid, working |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, dispirited, inactive, lethargic |