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    Active touch refers to a kind of touch in which the observer plays an active role in touching and exploring an object, usually with his or her hands.
    
    
        
    
    
        
            
    
        
    
        
        
    
        
    Active transport is the protein-mediated process that expends energy to pump chemicals from the blood into the brain
    
    
        
    
    
        
            
    
        
    
        
        
    
        
    Active voice refers to a  sentence in which the surface structure subject is also the deep structure  or logical subject of the sentence, such as when a  mother scolded her child.