active adjective (GRAMMAR) âº grammar [ not gradable ] describing a verb or sentence in which the subject is the person or thing that does what is stated: In Alex gave me a gift, the verb give is active, and in I was given a gift by Alex, give is passive.
A single night of sleep deprivation can impact a person's ability to coordinate eye movements with steering. Share: Results of the study showed that, in all drivers, sleep deprivation adversely affected their ability to coordinate eye movements when steering.
Sleep Deprivation Debits. The amount of sleep a person needs also increases if he or she has been deprived of sleep in previous days. Getting too little sleep creates a sleep debt, which is much like being overdrawn at a bank. Eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid.