active movement

collocation in English

meaningsofactiveandmovement

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active
adjective
uk
/ˈæk.tɪv/us
/ˈæk.tɪv/
busy with a ...
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movement
noun
uk
/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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(Definition ofactiveandmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofactive movement

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The thick, almost vertical broken line indicates the boundary for observing, on the right side, theactivemovementof bacterial cells inside colonies.
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Hodge's (1989) acoustic evidence suggested that apical articulation in babbling is performed with passive movement of the tongue cooccurring withactivemovementof the mandible.
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Activemovement-based music play, and the resulting sound, can be successfully accommodated out of doors, but this represents a departure from usual practice for many early years practitioners.
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Control strategies that tolerate the resistance to deflections from the initial posture each time when anactivemovementis produced are highly inefficient in terms of energy costs.
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Whether this is exactly the moment to bring forward a motion foractivemovement, is to my mind a very debatable question.
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Physical therapy is a common source of treatment during these early stages of restoration ofactivemovement.
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Cells achieveactivemovementby very different mechanisms.
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Theactivemovementof kinesins supports several cellular functions including mitosis, meiosis and transport of cellular cargo, such as in axonal transport.
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Before his death, he only drew figures paintings emphasizing onactivemovementof people in a collaboration with forms of letters.
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The tales are painted in a style called otoko-e, or men's pictures, a style characterized byactivemovement, outdoor scenes and a certain feeling of lacking restraint.
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As children explore the world around them, sensory perceptions evoke active movements in which rhythms are spontaneously developed.
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From this state of mind, the practitioner uses gentle touch and a combination of passive andactivemovementto teach the body how to move with less effort.
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Noactivemovementfrom one location to the next occurs; furthermore, ablatives of separation sometimes lack a preposition, particularly with certain verbs like care or lber.
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Its active movements are necessarily set on foot by the natural persons who stand behind it.
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There have been very active movements fighting for its preservation in the face of demands for land.
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Beta activity is closely linked to motor behavior and is generally attenuated during active movements.
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Within the huge spaces of the sets they employed unusually active movements for the camera whose virtuosity makes them highly visible to the spectator.
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It gave the troops who performed that heavy labor, change, which they greatly needed, and it gave all, hopes of active movements in the field.
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