ACTIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does actively mean? 

• ACTIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb ACTIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in an active manner

  Familiarity information: ACTIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an active manner

Context example:

he participated actively in the war

Antonym:

passively (in a passive manner)

Pertainym:

active (disposed to take action or effectuate change)

 Context examples 

These results show that the body regulates its salt and water balance not only by releasing excess sodium in urine, but by actively retaining or releasing water in urine.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

The Association is also actively involved in advocating for scientific research and for the rights of people with diabetes.

(American Diabetes Association, NCI Thesaurus)

A device designed to indicate which electrical circuit is actively receiving current.

(Annunciator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Although the ability to actively forget has been seen in humans, it is unclear whether it occurs in other species.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

This is a planet being actively stripped of its atmosphere.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

While some of the lesions heal, completely or partially, other lesions remain and rimmed ones appear to actively expand, or “smolder”, for many years.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

B cell activation also creates memory cells with the same antigen specificity that do not actively secrete immunoglobulin but provide for rapid future immune responses to the same antigen.

(Antigen Dependent B Cell Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Aurora kinases are serine/threonine protein kinases that are only expressed in actively dividing cells and are critical in division or mitosis.

(Aurora Kinase/VEGFR2 Inhibitor CYC116, NCI Thesaurus)

A B-lymphocyte that has been activated to be receptive to Epstein Barr virus and is found in the area of a lymph nodule containing aggregations of actively proliferating lymphocytes.

(EBV-Transformed Late Germinal Center/Post-Germinal Center B-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)