A. vs active

A.

adj
  • avancé (fast) 

  • amphibious 

  • Asian 

  • asked 

  • Australian 

  • arterial 

  • alto 

  • auxiliary 

  • adjusted 

  • asymmetric 

  • accepted 

  • astragal 

  • anterior 

  • American 

  • arctic 

  • approved 

  • atomic 

  • Absolute 

  • absent 

noun
  • apprentice 

  • absorbance; absorbancy 

  • accusative case 

  • amphibian 

  • attack 

  • August 

  • author 

  • automobile 

  • application 

  • Amos, the book of 

  • adjutant 

  • accumulator 

  • acre; acres 

  • Angstrom 

  • ana; anna 

  • April 

  • anode 

  • answer 

  • artificer 

  • air branch 

  • atomic weight 

  • associate; association 

  • academy; academician 

  • age; aged 

  • airman 

  • assault, as on a badge 

  • air 

  • administration 

  • admiral 

  • alfa 

  • amateur 

  • aqua 

  • annus (a year) 

  • Artillery 

  • amplitude 

  • absolute temperature 

  • address 

  • adult 

  • acid 

  • aircraft; airplane 

  • article 

  • Atlantic 

  • arctic 

  • army 

  • accommodation 

  • America; Americanization 

  • ambassador 

  • alto 

verb
  • Americanize 

  • admit 

prep
  • ante (before) 

  • at 

  • after 

adv
  • annō (in the year) 

active

adj
  • Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble. 

  • Brisk; lively. 

  • Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice. 

  • Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive. 

  • (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner. 

  • Requiring or implying action or exertion 

  • Not passive. 

  • Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative 

  • Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter. 

  • Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives. 

  • Emitting hot materials, such as lava, smoke, or steam, or producing tremors. 

  • Implying or producing rapid action. 

  • Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy 

  • Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state. 

  • In action; actually proceeding; working; in force 

noun
  • A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting. 

  • Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering). 

How often have the words A. and active occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )